Katie Hargrave - I'm interested in what you mean by chaos in your
leadership. Would you mind
explaining a bit more fully?
Hi,
Chaos in our organization (minor fork from democracy?).
I suppose in a lot of ways we know more about how we don't want to run
than how we do. For the sake of legal status we are a social enterprise
and have the standard roles of chair, secretary and treasurer. In reality
roles and responsibilities change according to projects and individual
time. In a similar way to open source software projects if one of the poly
members devises a project that looks interesting and they are passionate
about then others follow. If the project leader started to dictate strict
terms of engagement then I'm guessing participants would get turned off
(maybe another difference from software development). The person that
initiates the project generally tends to be the project leader.
To relate it back to software development, its probably worth mentioning
Linus Torvalds at this point.I have pasted below the message he first
posted on usenet in 1991. I still find the development of the GNU/Linux
OS quite amazing when you consider how relaxed and informal this message
is.
Dominic
http://ptechnic.org
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From: [log in to unmask] (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: What would you like to see most in minix?
Summary: small poll for my new operating system
Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki
Hello everybody out there using minix -
I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and
professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing
since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on
things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat
(same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons)
among other things).
I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work.
This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and
I'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions
are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)
Linus ([log in to unmask])
PS. Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs.
It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never
will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.
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