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I used to joke that the Internet could not be invented today because it required a lot of work with no obvious benefit.
It's not funny anymore.
@carlton @webology @ericholscher @maxine
If "infrastructure" is "stuff required by the stuff I require"
and "production" is "when people use it and I'm not around"
then few devs and IT staff will be able self host everything above their IP address.
For instance, when I mention that I hosted a private instance of RTD + Texlive at work, few people know what that means. (... even fewer give a $#@).

Federation requires interoperability and that's a word I don't hear often enough.
Interoperability requires a big view and a bigger heart...John Postel sized heart.
IMHO, if we had a half dozen more @brewsterkahle level people, I would have reason to be optimistic.

So we need to find those people or build them if necessary.
(If this makes any sense then the cough medicine is wearing off.)