- Opens up your mind. Brings new ideas, new paradigms.
- Woo! a word keynote doesn’t know about!
- Multiple paths + multiple ideas spontaneously developed create a stigmergy.
- Even though stigmergy only creates a “seemingly” intelligent group, let’s use the metaphor/example of termite’s nests.
- Marco Dorigo 1992
ACO: Ant Colony Optimization
- ACO in action. Relation?
- Blitz at the top.
- Green is the one behind #2
- People interact, people solve problems together. Groups develop shared memories (mailing lists, IRC Logs, wikis, bug tracking systems) — distributed collaborative intelligence
High CiQ: group moderation, small set of rules, creative thinking, strong group, quality control, documentation (memories).
- It’s about collaboration but more importantly:
- Being open: Discuss issues in public
- Peering: Modify what doesn’t fit. Interact with other developers.
- Sharing: Ideas, concepts (This is scary for enterprise)
- Global activity: This is a big world but on the internet, there are not territorial boundaries and there’s a lot of talent and people with great experiences.
- Studied what appears to be the Elite and 1% of the healthiest students rather than the actual average people discriminating against crippled, stupid people, etc.
- Top of the pyramid is (Self-actualisation — the need to solve problems and then “esteem” the need to accomplish something (Self-fulfillment, what others think, being respected by others.) (A kid winning some spelling contest or a sports event)
- Talented developers, used to remote working, used to team interaction, used to
Developers are the core of the startup, they are the heart, they are the ones spending nights-in making the next awesome feature — treat them with respect — self-growth.
OSS is like sports. It’s not a job (Well sometimes it is) but for many it’s a hobby, a passion.
- It’s not only code. It’s community, experience, comments, bug reports, etc.
- Bleh... has to be said.
- Think culture, think self-fulfillment, think about your position in the market and think about others.
