Sustainability & Open Source Communities Tere Vadén University of Tampere

a. general b. micro c. macro

a. general

b. micro

c. macro

Sustainability is inherently “open”, peer-to-peer

“[i]n a constantly changing environment, sustainability is not some ultimate endpoint but is better conceived as a continuous process of learning and adaptation. [...] Sustainability is a process of co-evolution and co-design that involves diverse communities in making flexible and adaptable design decisions at local, regional and global scales.” “ Designers as Transdisciplinary Integrators and Facilitators of Sustainable Solutions” Daniel Christian Wahl & Seaton Baxter. Design Issues , 2008.

“[i]n a constantly changing environment, sustainability is not some ultimate endpoint but is better conceived as a continuous process of learning and adaptation. [...] Sustainability is a process of co-evolution and co-design that involves diverse communities in making flexible and adaptable design decisions at local, regional and global scales.”

“ Designers as Transdisciplinary Integrators and Facilitators of Sustainable Solutions” Daniel Christian Wahl & Seaton Baxter. Design Issues , 2008.

Linus Torvalds "I think the real issue about adoption of open source is that nobody can really ever "design" a complex system. That's simply not how things work: people aren't that smart - nobody is. What open source allows is to not actually "design" things, but let them evolve, through lots of different pressures in the market, and having the end result just continually improve." http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Design

"I think the real issue about adoption of open source is that nobody can really ever "design" a complex system. That's simply not how things work: people aren't that smart - nobody is. What open source allows is to not actually "design" things, but let them evolve, through lots of different pressures in the market, and having the end result just continually improve."

http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Design

In peer production, the interests of capitalists and entrepreneurs are no longer aligned "incentives of entrepreneurs (whether they work for free, get consulting fees) and capitalists (who want to get a return on something they own) diverge in situations that are mainly coordinated through non-monetary incentives." For example, Linus Torvalds: coordinating social activity. A capitalist, by contrast, wants to get a return on something they own.

"incentives of entrepreneurs (whether they work for free, get consulting fees) and capitalists (who want to get a return on something they own) diverge in situations that are mainly coordinated through non-monetary incentives."

For example, Linus Torvalds: coordinating social activity. A capitalist, by contrast, wants to get a return on something they own.

micro

micro

Aspects of sustainability Social Cultural Legal Economical Technical

Social

Cultural

Legal

Economical

Technical

FOSS is my main job and I get most of my salary from that FOSS is my hobby How your work with FOSS is related to your income?

Miksi ihmiset osallistuvat? Open Source Self-enriching motivations strongly disagree agree neither-nor (source: Mikkonen, Vainio & Vadén 2006)

Open Source

Internal tensions in hybrid communities From the company perspective: attitudes of employers towards hiring FOSS hackers From the community perspective: predatory hiring of top developers Issues of sustainability of communities The Protestant Ethics strikes back! Friction between the work ethics (Shuttleworth: SchoolTool, Debian/DuncTank) "Specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart" -Weber temporal development; a talent pool; a career-path individual sustainability?

Internal tensions in hybrid communities

From the company perspective: attitudes of employers towards hiring FOSS hackers

From the community perspective: predatory hiring of top developers

Issues of sustainability of communities

The Protestant Ethics strikes back!

Friction between the work ethics (Shuttleworth: SchoolTool, Debian/DuncTank)

"Specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart" -Weber

temporal development; a talent pool; a career-path

individual sustainability?

macro

macro

"we now have something that makes possible to scale small-group dynamics to a global scale (ex. Linux, Wikipedia, etc.)" M. Bauwens who is this " we " and in what sense do we " have "? "when costs of of participation are low enough, any motivation may be sufficient to lead to a contribution" what/who creates " low costs of participation "? two questions from today

"we now have something that makes possible to scale small-group dynamics to a global scale (ex. Linux, Wikipedia, etc.)" M. Bauwens

who is this " we " and in what sense do we " have "?

"when costs of of participation are low enough, any motivation may be sufficient to lead to a contribution"

what/who creates " low costs of participation "?

http://www.wwwords.co.uk/rss/abstract.asp?j=elea&aid=2872 doi: 10.2304/elea.2006.3.3.265