This project sounds important to a large community of people. Yet it sounds like many of the people mentioned in the article were in some ways outsiders, even within that community.
I don't know whether the reasons are the same, but we used to often see situations like that in open source software, and in computing in general before that.
I don't know whether the reasons are the same, but we used to often see situations like that in open source software, and in computing in general before that.