there is some work somewhere (o how I love the net, which tells me things I can’t remember where I learned them) about how introducing money into a social system of favors and mutual goodwill changes how people behave, to the point where people are more cooperative if you don’t pay them anything at all than if you pay them just a little. if you can (or must) work on something without any hope of ever being directly compensated for it, then you can work on it round the clock without tallying up hours or making time sheets or budgets.

not everything is of course done off the clock!

My twitter name is alanajames and I think I sent on some type of hello to you through that system (still learning).

Thanks for your posts on Picasso - I think young geeks are similar when they pound away at new code, adding it to open source, etc.

Off to invesitgate swarm teams!

Alana