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Revision as of 06:09, 1 November 2004
Contents
Motivation and Rewards of Open Source Development
How Project Team Members Communicate
Project Team Members communicate via this Wiki, starting on this page and with linked sub-pages linked from here.
There is also an email list, [1], that reaches all project members. GailFrederick manages the mailing list, please contact her for additions/removals.
Links to Project Sub-Pages
(no links yet)
Draft of the One-Page Project Description
(Project description is due Monday, November 8, 2004)
Team Members
Topic
Motivation and Rewards of Open Source
Why do developers, testers, documenters volunteer for open source projects? What motivates them, and what benefits do they eventually obtain?
Sub-Topics
* Developer Motivations and Rewards (i.e. Why do programmers contribute to open-source projects?) * Consumer Motivations and Rewards (i.e. Why do consumers adopt / purchase open-source products?) * Incubator Motivations and Rewards (i.e. Why do for-profit entitites incubate and otherwise support open-source products? * Public Sector Motivations and Rewards (i.e. Why do governments and governmental agencies support open-source products through legislation, regulation and economic incentives?
