yeah , I completely agree. However, I feel there has to be a way to do this outside of the standard school/day-job. Reason I'm saying this is because I've worked in numerous open source projects and have met many friends that I would love to work with. The world is just too big to limit myself to a small circle of people. Also, take for example folks who live outside of major tech areas (an basically all rural locations). Where can they go to find good people to even begin building these relationships?

I don't have the exact answers on how to build this "trust" system into a platform (still researching). However I think it's definitely possible.