I’ve just finished “Linked” by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi (review to come shortly) and the number of applications of his thesis are startling. A New Map for Open Source Communities The first that jumps to mind is how it nicely the book’s main point provides a map that explains both the growth and structure of open source [...]
Entries tagged as “online collaboration”
Open Source Communities – Mapping and Segmentation
Messina and Firefox
So I know I’m late to the party but wanted to contribute some thoughts to the Messina debate on Mozilla. What I find most interesting are not the specifics of the discussion, but the principles beings discussed and the manner by which they are being discussed. Break Messina piece down and he is essentially making [...]
Wiki’s and Open Source: Collaborative or Cooperative?
This is a follow up to my previous post Community Management as Open Source’s Core Competency which has become the most viewed post on this site. I’ve been meaning to follow it up for some time, sorry for the delay. Online communities, and in particular their collaborative nature, have been generating a lot of buzz [...]
Wiki's and Open Source: Collaborative or Cooperative?
This is a follow up to my previous post Community Management as Open Source’s Core Competency which has become the most viewed post on this site. I’ve been meaning to follow it up for some time, sorry for the delay. Online communities, and in particular their collaborative nature, have been generating a lot of buzz [...]
Community Management as Open Source’s Core Competency
Reaction to this post has been overwhelming – I made it the basis of a presentation at the 2007 Free Software and Open Source Symposium at Seneca college. You can watch it here as a slidecast. A good friend of mine, Mike B. and I have been exchanging thoughts on open source projects. Mike’s experience [...]
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