To whit, open source projects have been run for decades over nothing but email mailing lists. People participating in these projects feel a strong social connection.
And a bunch of conferences like FOSDEM, GUADEC, LinuxConf, PyCon...
All the while not forgetting that people contributing to free software have altogether different motivations: they are (almost) all in it because they want to contribute their own time to something they believe in.
Quite different from what majority of people in any company are there for.
All the while not forgetting that people contributing to free software have altogether different motivations: they are (almost) all in it because they want to contribute their own time to something they believe in.
Quite different from what majority of people in any company are there for.