One of the presentations I attended on Friday was a presentation held by Mekki MacAulay's presentation revolved around the study of various open source practices that may either help or hinder a group's growth. The study was still Mekki is a work in progress, however, PhD candidate studying at the amount Schulich School of research and the correlations that resulted from the in-depth interviews he conducted were fascinating to meBusiness. The purpose of the study reason why I chose this talk to cover was due to analyze the practices nature of open source communities and to see how the different types of practices affect the functioning presentation. Many of the community. Mr. MacAulay mapped the various routines that occurred in multiple open source communities (given to him via interviews with members of various involvement) to four categories. Practices presentations during FSOSS were considered an enabling practice if the action was considered about a positive interaction particular project, and motivating for the person those presentations discussed specifically about that project and a disabling practice if it had the opposite effect (these two categories were from things that affected the research by Mantere)project. As wellIn terms of scope, if the practice was codified it was considered to be a recursive practice; whereas the opposite would be classified as an adaptive practice. After categorizing the practices, Mrthey were very localized. MacAulay found Not that things weren't as simple as "recursive practices are disabling" and "adaptive practices are enabling." The results showed that recursive practices had instances there is anything wrong with that were considered enabling, and adaptive practices that were considered disabling. Further analysis showed that the stage but because of the open source community (larger impact Mekki's research can have, as well established or fairly new) had an effect on whether or not a recursive practice was seen as enabling or disabling. The same applied for adaptive. my background in studying the humanities, I found this fascinating, because felt really drawn by the projects that were offered to us had communities that ranged from recent (paladin/gladius) to fairly mature (processing.js)presentation.

The presentation revolved around the study of various open source practices that may either help or hinder a group's growth. The study was still a work in progress, however, the amount of research and the correlations that resulted from the in-depth interviews he conducted were fascinating to me. The purpose of the study was to analyze the practices of open source communities and to see how the different types of practices affect the functioning of the community. Mekki mapped the various routines that occurred in multiple open source communities (given to him via interviews with members of various involvement) to four categories. Practices were considered an enabling practice if the action was considered a positive interaction and motivating for the person and a disabling practice if it had the opposite effect (these two categories were from the research by Mantere). As well, if the practice was codified it was considered to be a recursive practice; whereas the opposite would be classified as an adaptive practice. After categorizing the practices, Mekki found that things weren't as simple as "recursive practices are disabling" and "adaptive practices are enabling." The results showed that recursive practices had instances that were considered enabling, and adaptive practices that were considered disabling. Further analysis showed that the stage of the open source community (well established or fairly new) had an effect on whether or not a recursive practice was seen as enabling or disabling. The same applied for adaptive. I found this fascinating, because the projects that were offered to us had communities that ranged from recent (paladin/gladius) to fairly mature (processing.js). Based on the presentation by Mr. MacAulayMekki, I was left with the impression that he was deeply involved with open source. He portrayed open source as opportunity, one where everyone can take part in and benefit from. From his study, it was clear that he would like the information to help aid the sustained growth and involvement of new contributors to the open source community. I think it's a great goal to aim for, being able to help ensure that both new and old open source communities stay strong is very important for both end users and for driving innovation in the software industry.