On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 7:05 PM, MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
Hi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM9p4o050EY
Someone sent this to me earlier this week. It's a ten-minute cartoon video
that discusses purpose and motivation. The video lightly touches on
technical projects such as Wikipedia, Apache, and Linux and focuses on the
research into why people spend their free time on such projects.
I imagine some people on this list have already seen this, but it's new to
me and I thought I'd send it along in case others found it interesting.
MZMcBride
This is extremely relevant to the projects and why they are successful at
all. +1 recommend.
If you're interested, the speaker (who I don't think is named) is Dan Pink
and he has a book on this subject.[1]
If you're interested in the topic of Wikipedia and motivations in specific,
Maryana and I will be giving a talk at Wikimania reporting on research we
did involving 30-odd interviews with Wikipedians.[2]
Steven
1.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive:_The_Surprising_Truth_About_What_Motiva…
2.
https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/%E2%80%9CThis_is_my_vo…