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==Free and Open Source Strategy as Practice: Participant Perspectives - Mekki MacAulay==
After the site building extravaganza I’ve decided to attend “Free and Open Source Strategy as Practice: Participant Perspectives” by Mekki MacAulay who is a PhD Candidate for strategic management at Schulich School of Business. I was drawn into it because I thought I would be learning about how to about open source strategies and practices and would be useful for my DPS909 course. How stupid was I for not digesting the rest of the topic. “Participant Perspectives”.
Mekki interviewed various people involved in the open source community. He did not identify who the interviewees were but they ranged from project leader to passive users. The interviewees gave examples of practices and Mekki was able to categorize the practices and make a table to show that recursive practice tends to be disabling while adaptive practice tends to be enabling. He also compared recursive practice to cathedral and adaptive practice to bazaar, which I found interesting because I have read the story less than couple months ago and knew about the topic to agree with his presentation.
I love the fact that he seemed happy to present his topic. He was prepared to answer questions by the audience and did notdiscourage the class to have an open discussion. There were many types of programmers in the room ranging from students like me to people who had looked very experienced with open source sharing what they thought about various parts of the presentation.
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