On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 7:05 PM, MZMcBride z@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_Motivat... 2. https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/%E2%80%9CThis_is_my_voi...