Hi folks, The following blog post contains a distillation of a Master's student's anthropological research on the Fedora online development community:
http://www.cyber-anthro.com/beta-an-exploration-of-fedora%E2%80%99s-online-open-source-development-community/ There are numerous points in there worth considering in the context of the Sage project. In particular, note this excerpt: <quote> A possible solution to any perceived barriers to becoming a contributor could be addressed by providing easy ways of finding and accessing people already within the community who can and want to help. As an interviewee stated: "So I think we are pretty bad at having resources where novices can stumble across things on their own and "get into" the community all by themselves. But we’re really good at – when an existing community member meets a new person, they can usually help them get started very well. And that’s the thing – I think that our materials, perhaps, should be more geared towards "find a person to help you through this stuff." I think they try to be, but they aren’t always clear enough. Because being part of the community is about working with the people. </quote> The above brings to mind the numerous Sage Days workshop. -- Regards Minh Van Nguyen -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
