Adaptation and Diffusion of the Open Source Model: Is it Extreme Collaboration? Podcast

by Siobhán O'Mahony

In this Summit 2006 presentation, Siobhán O'Mahony will outline the social, technical, and legal aspects of the open source development model and reveal how they are adapted and recombined with more traditional approaches of collaboration to form new hybrids. While the lessons of corporate approaches to fostering community-created content are still being learned, Dr. O'Mahony reports on some strategies that have proven successful - critical information for organizations pondering how to build or manage their own communities, be they internal or external to the firm. With this insight, you'll be able to determine if an internal open source model might be right for your organization, or if participating in a cross-industry open source project, for example, might work within your governance structure.