Just a couple notes to share this week. I hope you find them interesting:
The story of Le Chambon is truly remarkable. I first read about it several years ago in a Phillip Yancey book. I can't remember which book, but anything by Yancey is worth reading. You can read the whole story in Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed by Phillip Hallie. Yancey gives a very nice summary, but Hallie's book has lots of details that are interesting if you want to get more in depth. There is also a documentary, Weapons of the Spirit, which I have not seen. It was directed by one of the children that was hidden in the village. Looks like it's hard to find. If you get a copy let me know!
The term crowdsourcing was coined by Wired Magazine in 2006, but in reality it has a long history. We think of crowdsourcing as a group of people unrelated in any way to each other working on the same project, but I'd argue that by virtue of the fact that they are working together on a project they are a community, even if a virtual community. Thought of in this way, crowdsourcing has been around in one form or another since the beginning of community itself.
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