1. Sustainability & Open Source Communities Tere Vadn University of Tampere

2. 3.

a. general

b. micro

c. macro

4. Sustainability is inherently open, peer-to-peer 5.

[i]n a constantly changing environment, sustainability is not some ultimate endpoint but is better conceived as a continuous process of learning and adaptation. [...] Sustainability is a process ofco-evolutionandco-design that involvesdiverse communitiesin making flexible and adaptable design decisions at local, regional and global scales.

Designers as Transdisciplinary Integrators and Facilitators of Sustainable Solutions Daniel Christian Wahl & Seaton Baxter.Design Issues , 2008.

6. Linus Torvalds

"I think the real issue about adoption of open source is that nobody can really ever "design" a complex system. That's simply not how things work: people aren't that smart - nobody is. What open source allows is to not actually "design" things, but let them evolve, through lots of different pressures in the market, and having the end result justcontinually improve."

http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Design

7. In peer production, the interests of capitalists and entrepreneurs are no longer aligned

"incentives of entrepreneurs (whether they work for free, get consulting fees) and capitalists (who want to get a return on something they own) diverge in situations that are mainly coordinated through non-monetary incentives."

For example, Linus Torvalds: coordinating social activity. A capitalist, by contrast, wants to get a return on something they own.

8.

micro

9. Aspects of sustainability

Social

Cultural

Legal

Economical

Technical

10. 11. 12. 13. 14. FOSS is my main job and I get most of my salary from that FOSS is my hobby How your work with FOSS is related to your income? 15. 16. Miksi ihmiset osallistuvat?

Open Source

Self-enriching motivations strongly disagree agree neither-nor (source: Mikkonen, Vainio & Vadn 2006) 17. 18.

Internal tensions in hybrid communities

• From the company perspective: attitudes of employers towards hiring FOSS hackers

• From the community perspective: predatory hiring of top developers

Issues of sustainability of communities

• The Protestant Ethics strikes back!

• Friction between the work ethics (Shuttleworth: SchoolTool, Debian/DuncTank)

"Specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart" -Weber

• • • temporal development; a talent pool; a career-path

• • • individual sustainability?

19.

macro

20.

"we now have something that makes possible to scale small-group dynamics to a global scale (ex. Linux, Wikipedia, etc.)" M. Bauwens

• who is this " we " and in what sense do we " have "?

"when costs of of participation are low enough, any motivation may be sufficient to lead to a contribution"

• what/who creates " low costs of participation "?

two questions from today 21. http://www.wwwords.co.uk/rss/abstract.asp?j=elea&aid=2872 doi: 10.2304/elea.2006.3.3.265 22. 23.