2024-03-04 –, Monday: Workshop Room / Tuesday: Remote Stage
Most FOSS projects are a one-man show, so a key question remains: How do we build a functional, diverse and vivid community? After some insights from research on Linux distribution communities, we want to share pitfalls and potentials of participatory design in the FOSS community.
Most FOSS projects are a one-man show, so a key question remains: How do we build a functional, diverse and vivid community?
What decisions do we want to make, who should be allowed to contribute and in what area? How to get the community involved?
It seems simple: whoever writes the code is right, and their decisions are simply implemented. But there is no one right answer, and fundamental questions can lead to forking and weakening of the community.
After a brief introduction to the development of community structures and their impact on the software produced, based on research in various Linux distribution communities and the Android FOSS community, we will discuss the pitfalls and key elements of community design and Human Centered Design as a practical approach to community-driven research in a world café.
🛈 This workshop won't be recorded and participation is only possible onsite.
Daniel is head of the research area network and society at nexus institut in Berlin. In his doctoral thesis he did research on the implications of governance design in linux distributions. Today he does research on the social construction of software in a number of research projects.
Student Assistent @ nexus Institut
FOSS Developer
MA: Human Factors @ TU Berlin
BA: IT & Political science @ FU Berlin
CEO Starwit Technologies GmbH
Building and running software has been Anett's passion for more than 10 years. For more than a decade she maintained ProjectBuilder (https://github.com/starwit/lj-projectbuilder), which has been used to kickstart numerous software projects. At Starwit Technologies, she is working on several open source projects.