LinuxWorld Asia Presentation

Slides from James Howison's LinuxWorld Asia Workshop

A Black and White version of the slides from the workshop.

Lakhani and Wolf (2004) "Why Hackers do what they do"

One of the two surveys on Open Source motivations used in the workshop.

Ghosh et al (2002) "Infonomics.nl Survey"

2002 Comprehensive Survey of developers, Chapter 4. http://www.infonomics.nl

-Ofun

Description of organizing an open source project around fun.

Sourceforge's Page on adding a developer

Sourceforge's advice to projects as they add a new developer.

PDF of "How to ask questions the Smart Way"

ESR's description of FLOSS culture and it's implications for how to ask questions and engage a FLOSS community.

Link: "How to ask questions the Smart Way"

A link to ESR's page publishing "How to ask questions the smart way". Contains links on to other resources, eg "How to report bugs effectively"

von Krogh et al (2004) "Joining Scripts"

A paper detailing an analysis of different approaches to attempting to join an Open Source project.

Howsion and Crowston (2005) Social Structure of FLOSS projects

A basic social network analysis of open source projects. Also see the PDF of a dynamic analysis below

Howison et al (2005) "Social dynamics of FLOSS team communications"

Pre-press version of a dynamic analysis of communications in 120 FLOSS project teams. This is under review, so please don't circulate.

Michlmeyer (2004) "Managing Volunteer Activity in Free Software Projects"

Former Debian project leader describes the Debian approach to managing and motivating volunteer participants.

Senyard and Michlmeyer (2004) "How to have a successful Free software project"

Senyard and Michlmeyer describe their understanding of what leads to FLOSS project success. In particular they argue for the importance of a working release before attempting to build community.

Link to ESR's "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"

Classic enthnographic work on the structure and functioning of FLOSS communities.