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Software Development
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Software Development

by Allen Tucker, Ralph Morelli, Chamindra de Silva
January 2011
Beginner
400 pages
10h 44m
English
CRC Press
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Chapter 10Project Governance

“Empowerment of individuals is what makes open source work, since innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.”

—Tim O’Reilly

The leadership and organizational dynamics for an open source project is sometimes called “project governance.” This term suggests a collaborative process that is driven by factors other than cost and profit.

Open source projects are gift economies. The organization that runs an open source software project differs in fundamental ways from that which oversees a proprietary project. Eric Raymond’s book The Cathedral and the Bazaar [Ray01] was a landmark publication describing the organizational differences between these two extremes.

However, many shades of ...

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