Trying to listen the community __before__ tracing the goals for SRP is my main message here. A more "etnographer" approach instead of the "saleman" one, if I can make the analogy.
This is good advice. Also Ben���s.
Richard that attitude you had in this thread is making your campaign more interesting, I���m looking forward to what comes after these reflections.
About the fragmentation we have, it���s true. I think is a "necessary evil��� to get things done in each dialect/framework/artefact.
If we somehow could make easy to keep (sub)communities connected, friends, we might be able to capitalize on
Metcalfe���s law in everybody���s favor.
And for me too it was the case of a friend that repeatedly cared to show me how the whole development cycle in smalltalk was ���different��� and interesting.
So friend sounds like a strategic word to make things better