self-organizing communities

My blogging mentor “Brian”:http://www.reusability.org/blogs/brian/ has put up a follow-on to my humble attempt at getting people up and running with blogs in the instructional technology community. Check out “Electric Boogaloo”:http://www.reusability.org/blogs/brian/archives/000091.html, which includes a link to “George”:http://www.elearnspace.org/cgi-bin/elearnspaceblog/’s “list of ‘eduBloggers’”:http://www.elearnspace.org/cgi-bin/elearnspaceblog/archives/000920.html. I’ve already noticed that I’m not doing a very good job following some of Brian’s suggestions… … Read more

In the recent posts that have been going around about research on open source software communities, I haven’t seen anyone point to the motherlode yet.. “MIT’s Free / Open Source Research Community”:http://opensource.mit.edu/ It’s filled with good papers (including some graduate theses) about the how’s and why’s of the groups that make OSS work.

“An Introduction to Open Source Communities”:http://www.blueoxen.org/research/00007/ describes: * What are the demographics of those who participate in these communities? Why do they join, and how long do they stay? How do they interact with each other? * How do open source communities work? What are the patterns of collaboration within successful open source communities? Spotted … Read more