Open Collaboration

[Dirk Riehle]

Great examples of open collaboration!

I've been using this term ("open collaboration") as well and my
examples are open source, Wikipedia and wikis, open space technology,
and open innovation [1] [2] [3].

I'm interested in the principles underlying open collaboration. Based
on our open source work, I see three main principles, namely:

* Egalitarian: Everyone can participate; no borders to joining a
project are erected.
* Meritocratic: Contributions are evaluated based on merit; seniority
is less important.
* Self-organizing: The collaborators choose their own collaboration processes.

Thoughts? What's the story and principles behind open collaboration?
Or is it too early to define it?

Dirk

[1] http://www.riehle.org/computer-science/research/2007/wikimania-2007.html

[2] http://www.riehle.org/2008/08/05/open-collaboration-self-organizing-innovation-in-large-corporations/

[3] http://www.riehle.org/2008/07/20/bringing-open-source-best-practices-into-corporations-using-a-software-forge/

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Raffi Aftandelian <raffi at bk.ru> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Alpha Lo, who was at the WOSonOS, has just shared with the world a new book:
>
> "Open Collaboration."
>
> He writes:
> "There's a new (and ancient) paradigm that's altering the world we know.
> The paradigm is that of open collaboration.
>
> Do we have a map of this paradigm?
>
> A new book "Open Collaboration" collects many of the amazing examples
> out there, gathers the concepts that are growing to explain this new
> revolution - from open source software to burningman to rainbow
> gatherings to wikipedia to tool libraries  to cohousing to farmers
> markets to peer-to-peer networks to open space technology to bottom-up
> processes to skillshares to drum circles to unconferences to creative
> commons to collaborative blogging to ecovillages to the global
> consciousness project to workers cooperatives to remix culture - and
> brings them together into an encyclopedia. It itself taps into the
> openly collaboratively written Wikipedia for many of its articles.
>
> available at lulu.com
> www.lulu.com/content/3664657
> (theres a free download of the book at the website)
>
> "Open collaboration" : an encyclopedia on the power of participation
> and self-organization. Compiled and edited by Alpha Lo.
>
> This is a book you can browse for inspiration, search for ideas of how
> to make your project more openly collaborative. This is a book you can
> use to make sense of the multidimensional aspects of this new open
> collaboration paradigm that may be birthing a whole new era of human
> history that is globally cooperative.
>
> "This book has the potential to generate a culture" - Patrick Troup
>
>
> warmly,
> raffi
>
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