{"id":28,"date":"2005-02-08T10:29:04","date_gmt":"2005-02-08T18:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peakepro.com\/?p=28"},"modified":"2005-02-08T10:29:04","modified_gmt":"2005-02-08T18:29:04","slug":"the-politics-of-creating-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/archives\/28-the-politics-of-creating-communities.html","title":{"rendered":"The Politics of Creating Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width='72' height='72' style=\"float: left;border: 0px;padding-left: 5px;padding-right: 5px\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/archive\/php.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>PHPDeveloper just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phpdeveloper.org\/index\/2795\">reported<\/a> that the phpBB development server has been hacked by a politically motivated group. More details and the response from the phpBB group are on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phpbb.com\/\">phpBB<\/a> site. What strikes me most is the phpBB slogan: &#8220;creating communities.&#8221; Why would anyone want to maliciously thwart that? I guess in a meritocracy like open source if you don&#8217;t feel you&#8217;re getting your share of merit, sometimes people resort to drastic means. But if this is truly a &#8220;benificent&#8221; move, why didn&#8217;t the hackers let the phpBB group know about their weaknesses in a more civil manner? This is a sad day for open source, and a step backward in creating a sense of community in the open source world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHPDeveloper just reported that the phpBB development server has been hacked by a politically motivated group. More details and the response from the phpBB group are on the phpBB site. What strikes me most is the phpBB slogan: &#8220;creating communities.&#8221; Why would anyone want to maliciously thwart that? I guess in a meritocracy like open &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/archives\/28-the-politics-of-creating-communities.html\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Politics of Creating Communities<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1268,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}