Once upon a time, a company was providing a service to help people achieve what they couldn’t do by themselves, because of a lack of know how or knowledge, or because of the lack of tools. They were doing this because they studied this, practiced this, and were good at this, hence them being called for the job. In consequence, they were getting something as a retribution (food, whatever privilege, money).

Nowadays, do you think passion or skills are leading the industry? Sometimes... This is business, right? I feel more and more (at least around me in Shanghai) the cause starts with money (Hey! We could make money out of that!) instead of the willing to help or share.

Hopefully, there’s still some nice people all over the place. :)
(making money first is definitively not putting someone at the top of my "nice people" list)

Hey! Did you know Paris-Web just started their call for speakers? Mmm... Maybe will I try to be in Paris in October 2010...