Community Feeling

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Driving Force: Community Feeling

Description:

With the raise of open source software everybody is invited to work on software developments projects. Not just programmers are invited to write code on projects, also end users are invited to report bugs, people are invited to manage the whole project. The community feeling among people triggers them to work as hobbyists on large projects together, to tackle bugs in their own interest.

Enablers:

  • Open source software
  • Decrease in workload, increase in spare time
  • Decrease of complexity in programming languages
  • Increase education in the world
  • Internet as a way to communicate

Inhibitors:

  • Large companies
  • Lack of support
  • Communication issues among project team members

Paradigms:

  • Everybody in the world can work with each other to develop good software products


Experts:

  • Software developers
  • Business ICT managers

Web Resources:

  • Slashdot.org
  • newsforge.com
  • sourceforge.org