On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 7:00 AM, Aryeh Gregor
<Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
....
Is vendor-to-customer development more efficient than peer-to-peer in
the end? A lot of open-source projects (e.g., Firefox) have as many
features as their closed-source counterparts, on a much smaller
budget.
...
... Empirically, this seems like a very
effective approach for organizations that don't have much money, like
Wikimedia or Mozilla. Open-source software is turned out on far lower
budgets than typical commercial software.
Mozilla is an excellent example of a non-profit organisation who also
have a similar policy of expecting their staff to do their work out in
the open, and they regularly recruit from within their community.
Read more about their governance, etc here
http://www.mozilla.org/about/governance.html
See point 8 of the Mozilla Manifesto
http://www.mozilla.org/about/manifesto
"8. Transparent community-based processes promote participation,
accountability, and trust."
You can see a list of their mailing lists here:
http://www.mozilla.org/community/forums/
.. including a vibrant list about governance ;-)
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.governance
They do have private lists as well, and (had?) a private bug database
for in-the-wild security issues, however these are subject to review
http://wiki.mozilla.org/GovernanceIssues#Shouldn.27t-Be-Private_Mailing_Lis…
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John Vandenberg