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Ruth Suehle is the community leadership manager for Red Hat's Open Source and Standards team. She's co-author of Raspberry Pi Hacks (O'Reilly, December 2013) and a senior editor at GeekMom, a site for those who find their joy in both geekery and parenting. She's a maker at heart who is often behind a sewing machine creating costumes, rolling fondant for an excessively large cake, or looking for the next great DIY project.
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I think that's a more eloquent phrasing of what I've been wondering. I can imagine that they thought they'd start an open source project, suddenly found themselves with a massive wad of cash, and changed their minds.
While I always hate for anybody to use age as an indicator of skill or ability, I just keep telling myself its their lack of experience and not an intentional effort to be closed. When it's the four of you spending a college summer trying to deal with the fact that people thought your idea was worth $200,000, it's probably easy to think of reasons that this or that "needs" to not be done in the open.
But I would think anyone, particularly of this age, and in a case where youth is probably a benefit, who understands anything about social media would see why progressively rolling out invitations is a terrible idea. And if the system is supposed to work through distributed nodes, then it's not a server load problem, right? I can't see what the logical justification for that is.