[ox-en] Study Reports on Debian Governance, Social Organization
- From: Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:05:28 +0530
"Two academic management researchers, Siobhán O'Mahony and Fabrizion
Ferraro, performed a detailed scientific study about Debian Project
governance and social organization from the management perspective. How
a big non-commercial non-paying community evolved and actually produces
some of the most respectable Operating Systems and applications packages
available? Organizations without a consensual basis of authority lack an
important condition necessary for their survival. Those with directly
democratic forms of participation do not tend to scale well and are
noted for their difficulty managing complexity and decision-making — all
of which can hasten their demise. The Debian Project community designed
and evolved a solid governance system since 1993 able to stablish shared
conceptions of formal authority, leadership and meritocracy, limited by
defined democratic adaptive mechanisms."
http://www.techforce.com.br/index.php/news/linux_blog/scientific_study_about_debian_governance_and_organization
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