Actually it would be nice to have a competence exchange website where volunteers could register and find matches. But instead of dating, this could be for developing.
Because the limitation of the "just do it yourself on your own" approach is that when looking for specific solutions I often stubble on a dozen of half-backed, dubiously maintained, side projects. And I can't keep from wondering what great things theses solos developers could have done had they worked together form the start.
Also a good example come to my mind, you might want to ask OpenStreetMap.org developers how did they gather and start what is a "recent" and huge FOSS success story with a large community behind it.
Because the limitation of the "just do it yourself on your own" approach is that when looking for specific solutions I often stubble on a dozen of half-backed, dubiously maintained, side projects. And I can't keep from wondering what great things theses solos developers could have done had they worked together form the start.
Also a good example come to my mind, you might want to ask OpenStreetMap.org developers how did they gather and start what is a "recent" and huge FOSS success story with a large community behind it.