So you've bought an old mosque and you want to fix it up. To do so you
need both help and support. For financial support and perhaps for
pragmatic reasons, you open it up in a disheveled condition with the hope
that people will come to use it as a service, but also give go it as a
community and make it better.
To your dismay, many cars each day seem to enter the parking lot and
immediately leave. One of them you recognize, it is your neighbor. You
ask your neighbor why they did not enter they say:
"This building is broken. The parking lot is gravel. Look at that wall,
it has a big crack in it. I thought you bought this place to fix it up."
When the mosque is finished and the walls and parking lot are fixed the
neighbor parks his car and says "Wow, I can't believe what you did to this
place!".
How do you as the owner feel about this? Do you turn them away or say "let
me show you this new wall!".
Community projects are built by the community that supports them. You
don't need to be a contractor to help fix a wall and you sure as hell don't
have to be a developer to help fix our software.
I'm not sure we want the causal "WOW!" just yet. We're still fixing this
place up.
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