[Foundation-l] Community, collaboration, and cognitive biases

[John Vandenberg]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 7:00 AM, Aryeh Gregor
<Simetrical+wikilist at 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_Lists

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John Vandenberg