Robin Muilwijk

Reaffirming post, thanks for sharing the HBR post and writing about it here. I use e-mail a lot and would be at hand if without it.

Being an active contributor to several open source projects/communities, a lot of communication and collaboration goes through direct emails and lists.

With movements like 'world without email' (http://www.elsua.net/tag/a-world-without-email/) I became carefull e-mailing people. But this reaffirms my personal opinion e-mail is the right tool for my collaboration.

This is a very interesting post. I am no teacher, but as an active contributor to open source projects e.g. communities, I can see this concept of taking the learners-seat instead of the teachers-seat applied to other roles in projects/communities.

Community managers, developers, forum moderators, they could all benefit from taking a seat *next* to a member instead of opposite to them. It would be the open source way of guiding another member, in whatever role you are, and whatever task you have at hand. To learn from each other in this way can be very rewarding.