On Thursday 17 February 2005 21:53, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > An article was posted today on NewsForge, titled "The paradox of > free/open source project management". > http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/02/10/1539242.shtml?tid >=132&tid=111
I am going to be helping a group discussion at OSBC in April in San Francisco, and I could see the above link being a jumping off point for discussions for that panel. What do you folks on the dev@ list think? Would anyone like to offer what questions are "must ask" questions for this panel and this topic? http://www.osbc.com/live/13/events/13SFO05A/conference/tracksessions/Enterprise Strategy/QMONYA04N6ZW Thanks in advance for any thoughts that you folks might have! Christian Einfeldt > Here are some quotes, which seem very relevant to some of the > discussions recently. I recommend reading the entire article -- > it's not long. > > "Leaders from three separate but related -- and incredibly > successful -- free/open source projects agree: If you want the > project to move to the next level, let go and let the community > take over." > > Linus Torvalds: > "One of the things I've been pretty happy with is how I generally > _have_ been able to fairly gracefully relinquish control. It > really is harder than you'd think, and I think it ends up being > one of the core problems that some open source projects have: > people (and companies) wanting to keep tight reins on a system, > because they have their own "vision" of where they want things to > go, or how things have to be done. And that stifles the project. > It doesn't allow others to feel like they control their own > destiny." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
