The perks of skill sharing for projects that are not your own
Wow, this looks exciting, thanks for getting the ball rolling Alex, it’s what we in Romanian pop culture call “leapșa” - a game where you challenge someone to do something, and then they challenge others and so it grows in a network across groups.
My baby project is EdgeRyders itself, as a community for global collaboration. After 4 years one most pressing need is finding people to teach us how self-organising communities can grow healthy at scale - through stories, examples and guidance. A bit like mentors. The outcome for them would be developing their projects as part of Edgeryders, and accessing a global pool of knowledge. An explanation for this is in this comment and this post.
My natural skills are in online community management and supporting other people’s projects. In fact, starting this year I am actively looking for local projects in Romania where I could volunteer about 2-4 hours per week. I see it more as an investment and a way of getting out of my own box and learning how to do better what I do anyway. This is not volunteering per se, nor is it a transaction - it’s really about shouldering together ideas we care about anyway, without the need to always be the guy in the front owning a project. One man shows are so outdated, individualistic, we need to let go and stop reinventing the wheel. Just get behind stuff, this is what being in networks means for me - and I learned this primarily from @Alberto and @elf_Pavlik.