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Community: hype or enabler?
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| We’ve stopped counting how many of our components were contributed by users -
| there are too many of them. For example, in France the Pays des Vals de
| Saintonge (PVS), recently decided to finance the Edigéo and Magic connectors
| to transform their data, which would then be given back to the community
| under a GPL license so that all municipalities could benefit from them.
| Eurofins enhanced a SQL Server connector commenting “Thanks to our expertise
| in terms of databases, we improved the MS Server connectors and we have
| shared these improvements with the community.” And Habitat 76 financed the
| development of a connector for the Alfresco management tool, which it opted
| to return to the community for integration in future versions of Talend Open
| Studio and Talend Integration Suite.
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| These are only few examples of the involvement of our community.
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| So to conclude, I’m delighted to say - no, the community is NOT hype!
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http://www.talend.com/blog/2009/06/10/community-hype-or-enabler/
Freeriding, participation and another modest proposal
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| There has been in the past several articles related to “freeriding“, that is
| the use of OSS without any apparent form of reciprocal contribution, be it in
| a monetary form, or in terms of source code. I am not sympathetic to this
| view in general, because it masks an ill-posed question, that is “if you use
| someone code, are you required to give something back?”
|
| [...]
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| Users contribute back in terms of participation in forums, in providing
| direct and indirect feedback, and much more. Of course only a small part of
| the users contribute back, a phenomenon that was apparent in most social
| phenomenon well before the internet, and should be no surprise to anyone.
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http://carlodaffara.conecta.it/?p=272
MySQL has a new release model
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| In an earlier post, the pursuit of openness, I announced that MySQL is
| working at a new release model.
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| There are still a few details to sort out, but the general plan is ready. The
| new release model has been approved and starts to operate immediately.
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http://blogs.sun.com/datacharmer/entry/mysql_has_a_new_release
Related:
Design in a P2P world: interview by Julien McHardy
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| His recent interest as a designer and researcher are the implications of
| design approaches that no longer focus on objects or users but on the very
| processes of design and use.
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| He writes that:
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| “The recognition that value is not something designer inject into objects but
| a relational property of the network of designer, objects and users has wide
| implications on the role of all parties hereto. The evolving questions of
| openness and control, power and responsibility resonate in your work.
|
| Allow me to sketch out some of the arguments you make in P2P and Human
| Evolution (Bauwens 2008), as I understand them: You propose that we live in a
| phase of cognitive capitalism where immaterial processes and the creativity
| that drives them become the main key for innovation. The hierarchical power
| structures of capitalism however can neither cope with, nor produce the
| increasing diversity and abundance of information that such a knowledge
| driven economy both creates and depends upon. The distribute networks of the
| internet and the web enabled the emergence of peer-to-peer modes of
| production, governance and ownership which are based on the “free cooperation
| of equals in view of the performance of a common task”.
|
| [...]
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http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/design-in-a-p2p-world-interview-by-julien-mchardy/2008/08/03
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