Watch “Would you do it again for free?” live from Los Angeles
From the SCALE list:
Stormy Peter's Sunday keynote speech at the 6th Annual Southern California Linux Expo will be streamed live over the Internet. It will happen Sunday, February 10th at 10 o'clock a.m. PST on ustream.tv.
The URL for the stream is http://ustream.tv/channel/scale-keynote-stormy-peters . It will go live approximately 09:55.
Tune in to see Stormy discuss, "Would You Do It Again For Free?", where she'll consider whether commercial companies are killing the open source software movement by paying people to work on it.
I really enjoyed your keynote presentation. There is a great need for people like yourself who are taking the time to analyze and educate about emerging trends in open source…in this case the managing of expectations W/R/T the traditional and virtual workplaces.
During your Q&A at the end of the keynote I found it interesting that one of the final questioners seemed to feel there was an anti-corporate mindset at work in the discussion.
I’ve been thinking about that question a few times since the expo.
it could be that another few slides could be developed for your presentation, perhaps something along the lines of adult relationships…e.g; you get back what you put in…and what to expect when one does not produce.
For example if a company hires a software developer exclusively, they have an expectation that schedules and feature sets will be satisfied.
At the the other end of the spectrum would be someone working for nil, just for the love of it. In this case the company can email or make requests, but might have little or no impact on how or when bugs are fixed or features added.
Kind of a X-Y cost-benefit graph.
I know your presentation mentioned these issues, but they certainly became the focus of the ending discussion. Seems to be a hot topic. I have a hard time understanding how anyone can be employed full-time by a single employer and not expect to be managed to some extent, e.g; put the schedule ahead of bugs fixes and feature additions.
Thanks again. That was a very thought provoking presentation.
Hi John,
Thanks for the thoughts. I was also surprised at the guy who took my presentation as anti-corporate – my real goal was to help the community and companies work better together and I knew most of my audience was community so it was tailored to them. I feel their frustration and wanted to turn it into a call for action. I decided the next talk should be more specifics for people in companies on how to most effectively work with the open source community – I like your ideas and will probably incorporate them in some way or another.
Thanks!
Stormy