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Pat Masson's comments about the Bedework approach to building community and organizing our project may be over generous (but we thank him nonetheless) as it didn't really occur to us to go about it another way.
We believed that to be successful our project needed to transcend local objectives and local requirements, be standards-based, and provide enough obvious value that institutions would be motivated to deploy it without having to be “sold”. This doesn't mean that we thought the community would build itself, but we felt the community should select itself, albeit sometimes with our guidance.
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