"until recently, information was good, and more information was better."
there is a [[disconnect]] between how we think open source works and "what is actually happening on the ground today".
most succesful projects have very few core contributors; many have only one, the maintainer
"in more than 85% of the open source projects the researchers examined on [[github]], less than 5% of developers were responsible for over 95% of code and social interactions"
i.e. the [[1% rule]] or 90-9-1 rule applies to open source
"over the last twenty years, open sourc einexplicably skewed from a collaborative to a solo endeavor"
"open source helps us understand why our online world didn’t avolve the way that early scholars predicted"
"if creators, rather than communities, are poised to bcome the epicenters of our online social systems, we need a much better understanding of how they work"
Part 1: How people make
1. Github as a platform
An aside: this chapter reads a bit like a [[github]] commercial and I’m not sure I like that.
GNU and the [[free software]] movement are mentioned relatively in passing.
But overall this chapter read as a dismissal of past movements; I have to admit I ended up with the feeling she was selling them short.
"[[Hackers]] are characterized by bravado, showmanship, misechievousness, and a deep mistrust of authority. Hacker culture still lives on today, in the way that beatniks, hippies, and Marxists still exist, but hackers don’t capture the software cultural zeitgeist in the same way they used to."
#WorkingInPublic[[go/cwg/bugs]] points to the bug component we use to track signups. After reviewing each signup and sending new users a welcome email, we close the bug.