Experience with geeks in OST forums

[Harrison Owen]

At 09:51 AM 12/17/2001 +1030, Alan wrote:
>This request stems from an approach to me from a person commissioned to
>promote better communication among
>IT people in a large corporation and their customers.
>
>Anyone have experience in working with "geeks/nerds" ie the technical
>people who create
>software and the hardware that runs it - on issues that cannot be
>addressed through engineering
>brainpower? And stories of where this happened?

I have worked with such strange folk on a number of occasions. All I can
report is that despite a public perception that these critters fall well
beyond the accepted norms of Homo sapiens, those perceptions are apparently
in error. In a word, nothing new, nothing strange -- just good old Open Space.

Harrison


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