You want to have a space too small, a time too short. If you have a big cabinet space of a lot of people in it and no one's talking, people go, 'I guess this is the place where we don't talk,' for whatever reason.
Communities die without multiple engaged voices
Leadership → Culture
A community with no people talking is definitely dead. A community with one person talking is already dead. You don't realize it yet.
It's not just the software, it's also like: how are the meetups? How are people getting together? What events are you running? Are there forums? How do people contribute?
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