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FSOSS REPORT FOR DPS909
This presentation was an example of another great talk on the concept of Designing open source software by taking input from the user community that uses it because in reality that is the main strength of the open source software, the community that backs this methodology and supports it whole heartedly. The main theme of the Mike presentation rested in 3 summary points that he made:
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(1) . Listen to your community: They are the users of your software and their input is very important in the development and success of your software, listen to their feedback, suggestions and inputs because alienating them can make your software suffer in the long run.<br>(2) . Lead your community: Leading the community is hard one but it is most beneficial because it makes you as product leader to develop standards and set examples by which the work would be done and completed and this is how your community evaluates the quality of your work and take active part and interest in it.<br>(3) . Let your community play and experiment: This is where the strength of open source community lies in, the ability to experiment and play with the software as the user desires. To create some new extensions for self and accumulated needs of the community for new added features and requirements. This sort of ideology builds a strong community which supports and trusts its developers because there is no hidden agenda in their products, everything is out in the open for everyone to see and experiment with. And open source community benefits the most from this sort of trust and user experimentation because it results in some marvelous and strong applications.
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Now, this is one of the most interesting advice I have every heard and it is very true on many levels of designing a product that reflects your user needs and requirements. Mike referred to as form of embracing the chaos of open source. Also Mike pointed out in the start of his presentation how “Designing in open source is not something that is ready for primetime”, or something among those lines. Which made me think about it for a while and I later on talked to him about it and basically what he meant is that open source is a great way of constructing and coding applications and building products but in corporation-ruled world that we live in, open source is a sort of new comer into different kind of world, underdog if you may which isn’t ready to take over the software world right now but it is getting there. Many major corporations have to embrace the open source community before it would be ready for primetime and its rightful position on the top of the software development domain.
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