[p2p-research] Fwd: [ox-en] Study Reports on Debian Governance, Social Organization

[Michel Bauwens]

Hi George,

see
http://www.techforce.com.br/index.php/news/linux_blog/scientific_study_about_debian_governance_and_organization

I wonder if you could mention and comment on this study for our blog?

Michel

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From: Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 1:35 AM
Subject: [ox-en] Study Reports on Debian Governance, Social Organization
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"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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