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Group motivation in open source

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Tom Hickerson
Tom Hickerson

The document discusses the origins and timeline of several major open source projects including Linux, OpenClinica, and Nginx. It notes that Linux was started as a hobby by Linus Torvalds in 1991 to create an operating system similar to Minix and shares Richard Stallman's views on the long history of software sharing. It also examines motivations for open source work like purpose, learning from others, mastery, and autonomy.

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Tom Hickerson, October 27th 2012 TEDx Kharkov Salon
Group motivation in open source
Group motivation in open source
? OpenClinica: project started 2003, first published 2005, first global conference in 2009 ? Nginx: project started 2004, company founded to support development in 2011 ? Linux: project started 1991, published version 1.0 in 1994 (and version 3.0 in 2011) ? Microsoft Vista: announced 2005, finished 2006, released 2007 and replaced in 2009
? “Hello everybody out there using minix - ? I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things).” ? Linus Torvalds, August 25th, 1991
What was our motivation? ? Sense of Purpose ? Learn from and help others you respect ? Desire for mastery ? Desire for autonomy
? “When I started working at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1971, I became part of a software-sharing community that had existed for many years. Sharing of software was not limited to our particular community; it is as old as computers, just as sharing of recipes is as old as cooking.” ? Dr. Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation ? http://www.gnu.org/gnu/the-gnu-project.html
? tomh@xig.li ? @launchallxig ? And yes, you can find me on “Feisbuk”

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Group motivation in open source

  • 1. Tom Hickerson, October 27th 2012 TEDx Kharkov Salon
  • 4. ? OpenClinica: project started 2003, first published 2005, first global conference in 2009 ? Nginx: project started 2004, company founded to support development in 2011 ? Linux: project started 1991, published version 1.0 in 1994 (and version 3.0 in 2011) ? Microsoft Vista: announced 2005, finished 2006, released 2007 and replaced in 2009
  • 5. ? “Hello everybody out there using minix - ? I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things).” ? Linus Torvalds, August 25th, 1991
  • 6. What was our motivation? ? Sense of Purpose ? Learn from and help others you respect ? Desire for mastery ? Desire for autonomy
  • 7. ? “When I started working at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1971, I became part of a software-sharing community that had existed for many years. Sharing of software was not limited to our particular community; it is as old as computers, just as sharing of recipes is as old as cooking.” ? Dr. Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation ? http://www.gnu.org/gnu/the-gnu-project.html
  • 8. ? tomh@xig.li ? @launchallxig ? And yes, you can find me on “Feisbuk”