Just to get rolling
Feb. 28th, 2011 02:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tara_hanoiI found an interesting little presentation linked from a wikipedia page on the Bus Factor - The number of people who have to be hit by a bus before nobody knows how something works.
How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People (And You Can Too)
I haven't watched it all, but it helps me with the idea of open source communities not being the free-for-all my commercial mind imagines it as. Some things are carefully managed, and there are people who review changes, either before or after the commit. There is some semblance of order.
I find it interesting because, at some point, I may try my hand at some project that's accessible enough for me to cut my teeth on (in terms of code, and mailing lists (I don't want too much traffic, but I fear that's just kidding myself)), and just see how I get on. There again, diving into some code and hacking is great for job advancement, but as far as actual social development goes, I'm not sure it's where I should be leaning. You know, I like to leave the house and things like that; so holing myself up with some source code isn't going to be the best way to go about it.
But I do want to get going on something. So at the moment, I'm a hacker without a cause.
How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People (And You Can Too)
I haven't watched it all, but it helps me with the idea of open source communities not being the free-for-all my commercial mind imagines it as. Some things are carefully managed, and there are people who review changes, either before or after the commit. There is some semblance of order.
I find it interesting because, at some point, I may try my hand at some project that's accessible enough for me to cut my teeth on (in terms of code, and mailing lists (I don't want too much traffic, but I fear that's just kidding myself)), and just see how I get on. There again, diving into some code and hacking is great for job advancement, but as far as actual social development goes, I'm not sure it's where I should be leaning. You know, I like to leave the house and things like that; so holing myself up with some source code isn't going to be the best way to go about it.
But I do want to get going on something. So at the moment, I'm a hacker without a cause.
