interesting read? (FOSS and communities)
Yaroslav Halchenko
site-openmoko.org at onerussian.com
Thu Aug 14 04:19:21 CEST 2008
I thought it might be an interesting read for some of you:
[1] "Building an Open Source Community" by Phil Whitehouse
Unfortunately I am not familiar with this guy and his opinions, and
imho his points listed in the article are somewhat idealistic (which
doesn't actually make them bad). I will avoid citing any of them here,
since you might spot peculiar ones on your own
[2] "Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free
Software Project" by Karl Fogel
It is referenced in comments to [1] and it seems to be much more
extended than just a list of the main aspects. But let me just quote 1
sentence from the introduction
,---
| Running a free software project is not exactly like running a business
| (imagine having to constantly negotiate the nature of your product with
| a group of volunteers, most of whom you've never met!).
`---
Enjoy the readings ;)
[1] https://fossbazaar.org/?q=content/building-open-source-community
[2] http://producingoss.com/
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