That's one of the benefits of working with a smaller network like IFC. You're awarded more trust, but trust that I really earned.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It doesn't matter how much money you've got, or how many connections, there's always something you want that's out of reach.
Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.
Trust is everything. If I didn't have trust, there would be no downloads, no show, and no business.
My Golden Rule of Networking is simple: Don't keep score.
There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? It's just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense.
But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection.
The cyberspace earnings I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and that I can depend on in return.
It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.
It's hard being on a new network, a smaller network.