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Sure, you see the word “parasitic” and the first thing that pops to mind is probably “ewww.”
But parasitic behavior is actually a good strategy for new communities, as long as they don’t ultimately kill their host.
Last night Rysiek pinged me about some thoughts on how to improve JBoss Portal, by allowing the core team to [...]

Henri Yanell made some comments on my previous post. I interpreted them to mean something like the following:

Within a project’s community, one or more companies may spring forth from the project. They share the same community and prospects, and their customers may overlap. (Overlapping customers not shown).
Additionally. within a thriving community exists [...]

First, there was the project.

The project was created by some guy, in some spare bedroom, at some hour in the dark of night, in some town. He may have done it out of academic interest. Or maybe it solved some problem for him. Ultimately, others shared the same interest or problem, and the [...]

Communities exist independent of any actual connections between people. There’s a community of people who have all bungee-jumped off the same bridge as you, even if you’ve never met them.
But, throw a Bridge Day, and the community becomes visible.
With online communities, this is quite evident. Some communities are purely based around the tools [...]