On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 7:05 PM, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote:
> Hi. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM9p4o050EY > > Someone sent this to me earlier this week. It's a ten-minute cartoon video > that discusses purpose and motivation. The video lightly touches on > technical projects such as Wikipedia, Apache, and Linux and focuses on the > research into why people spend their free time on such projects. > > I imagine some people on this list have already seen this, but it's new to > me and I thought I'd send it along in case others found it interesting. > > MZMcBride > This is extremely relevant to the projects and why they are successful at all. +1 recommend. If you're interested, the speaker (who I don't think is named) is Dan Pink and he has a book on this subject.[1] If you're interested in the topic of Wikipedia and motivations in specific, Maryana and I will be giving a talk at Wikimania reporting on research we did involving 30-odd interviews with Wikipedians.[2] Steven 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive:_The_Surprising_Truth_About_What_Motivates_Us 2. https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/%E2%80%9CThis_is_my_voice%E2%80%9D:_the_motivations_of_highly_active_Wikipedians _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l