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10 Open, But How Much? Growth,Conflict, and Institutional Evolution in Open‐Source Communities1

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Mateos-Garcia, Juan, Steinmueller, W. Edward·2008·Community, Economic Creativity, and Organization
DOI 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199545490.003.0011
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If ‘open source’ is taken as a practice employed in organizing human knowledge-related activities, it may be applied more broadly than just with software. Wherever it is used this chapter contends that processes of negotiation and governance will emerge as means to deal with conflicting interests and visions of community purpose (or epistemic identity). A variety of possible institutional designs for these negotiation and governance processes are possible and each will be tested by the problems of sustaining participation, the growth of the community to include more diverse participants and contests over the paths of development of collective effort. These designs and their subsequent tests are examined empirically for the Debian open source software distribution and Wikipedia open source encyclopaedia creation communities. Conclusions regarding the significance of the initial choice of rules, the processes available to alter these rules, and the potential for dissipation or disruption of efforts are reached, and a proposal to conceive of open source activities as having important parallels to the management of museums rather than bazaars is advanced.

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Authors
Mateos-Garcia, J., & Steinmueller, W. E.
ORCID
Venue
Community, Economic Creativity, and Organization
Publisher
Oxford University PressOxford
Published
2008-09-25
Pages
254-282
DOI
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199545490.003.0011
OpenAlex
W1497681930
Semantic Scholar
754216ac1dafb4b393abbcf518dda3ec8f940204
Cited by
8
References
16
Citations by year
2021: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 2
FWCI
3.69
Type
book chapter
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by
Locations
  • Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • University of Brighton Repository (University of Brighton) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Science Applications › Open Source Software Innovations
  • Social Sciences › Communication › Wikis in Education and Collaboration
  • Social Sciences › Communication › Knowledge Management and Sharing
Keywords
open source communities, institutional evolution, community governance, negotiation, epistemic identity, Debian, Wikipedia, open source software, collective effort, community growth, participation, conflict management

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