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The motivational drivers and barriers of volunteers in open source communities Part 2

2010-09-02T15:27:55+00:00

I blogged a while back about Barry doing his Masters Thesis on The motivational drivers and barriers of volunteers in open source communities which looked at the Ubuntu Community, he handed it in yesterday and I know some folks were curious about results so I asked him to write a small piece for the blog:

Barry Smyth:
In early 2010 I sat in on a seminar on Open Source Software and the community in Ireland, organised as part of my masters course in DIT Kevin St. One of the speakers was Laura Czajkowski. It was during her
talk that I saw the commitment she had to the community and it begins a process of thought about what drives individuals to offer their time and effort to Open Source Communities.

The course that I was studying was Computing but specialising in Knowledge Management (KM). Knowledge Management is the realisation that knowledge is an organisations greatest asset. We constantly hear
the term Knowledge and Smart economy being touted by the Irish government at the moment. They like so many large organisations realise that it is what we know and don’t realise we already know can
be our greatest resource.

Within companies it is commonplace for individuals to hoard knowledge, we do this for various reasons.

We are not confident about what we know, and are afraid others may disregard our knowledge.
We fear giving our knowledge freely, as it may make us redundant.
We find it difficult to articulate our knowledge.
We do not have the tools available to record our knowledge.
We simple do not realise that we possess some knowledge.

KM is about accessing the knowledge within people, teams, departments, organisations, then storing that knowledge in an understandable or codified fashion, and finally making that knowledge available and
easily accessible to others. Some prime examples of where KM can work effectively is in the Pharmaceutical industry, where the process of getting new drugs to market can be as long as 12 years. Most of the large pharmaceutical companies have implemented large KM projects. One in particular cut the time for filling applications to the European and American drug boards in half. The KM systems they installed held the knowledge of previous employees and former workers of the American Federal drug Administration (FDA). Due to their expertise as to what information was required in an application, these applications could be filled out much faster. As you can imagine the saving of several years in getting a drug to market is worth a considerable amount of money to drug companies. This is can be the power of KM.

However what many organisations find when they implement KM initiatives, regardless of the money, time and expertise that they throw at it, is people seem unwilling to share their Knowledge. There are drivers that motivate and barriers that prevent people from sharing their knowledge.

Within Open Source communities, we have a group of people who come together to freely share knowledge. This makes it an ideal place to investigate positive motivations. If KM initiatives could replicate
the motivations within Open Source Communities then their initiatives could prove far more successful.

Back to my story, I began to realise that the Ubuntu community could offer me a perfect environment to investigate motivations to knowledge sharing. In May I contacted Laura and told her about my Idea. Within days we
were sitting down together in a lab in DIT and Laura was showing me around the Ubuntu community. Over the course of the next 3 months with Laura and several other members of Ubuntu’s community I had fashioned
a suitable experiment. The experiment would utilise the existing social networking pages (Launchpad) within the community and over a period of Two weeks would email an advertisement of one of those profiles to the mailing list of the Irish team. I would then survey the Irish team to ascertain the usefulness of the experiment. The idea of the experiment was to measure the levels of trust needed for knowledge sharing, and whether tools like Launchpad could assist in people getting curious about others in the community. This is the starting point of building relationships and trust. The experiment received great support from the community and I had a fantastic response to the survey. The experiment idea was even taken on board as a continuous feature by the UK and North Carolina teams. The results of the experiment did indeed indicate that, firstly trust
is important to knowledge sharing and secondly tools like launhpad if used in a proactive manner can initiate contact between members of the group.

Overall my experience dealing with Laura and the rest of the Ubuntu community was extremely pleasant. I could not of asked for any more help or enthusiasm. It was a privilege to get an insight into a remarkable community.

This is an extract of some of the projects findings:

The project’s findings clearly suggested the varying forms of trust. That initial conversations between members in the Ubuntu community did lead to greater curiosity of others.
This can then lead to a process where two individuals will get to know more about each other and strengthen the bonds of trust between them.
The project also identified tools as being very important within online communities in building familiarity and trust.
Correspondence and direct communication was identified as being the most important tool in which people will get to know one another and build trust.
The project results suggested that the availability of social networking tools in this case Launchpad was utilised by members as a means to gain more knowledge about other users. However it also suggested that this was after initial correspondence with that individual. Curiosity of others increased after correspondence with them. This would suggest that tools are very useful in the process of building trust and friendships in virtual communities.
Communities where there is little correspondence however may not benefit from this trust building processes and utilisation of community tools. This is where the project findings are so useful. They clearly suggest that by advertising members profiles can initiate curiosity in them. Traffic to the profiles and results of the survey indicate that this is the case. This can be an important initiative in implementing the trust building processes in communities and subsequently the sharing of knowledge. It can help drive the initial stages of a KM system and could become an important part of the familarisation and trust building process.
The building of friendships was indicated as being one of the main motivators of membership in open source communities and thus the free sharing of knowledge. Trust is a vital element in any friendship and therefore any tools that can facilitate this are very valuable in creating a healthy dynamic knowledge-sharing environment.
The findings imply that a proactive approach is needed within a community to initiate the trust building process, that although members desire to build relationships of trust with others they may need a push to do so.

Thanks to Barry for the update, if anyone wants to drop him a line here is his email address.

S03E15 – Sharp Shooters

2010-09-01T21:10:05+00:00

Laura Cowen, Tony Whitmore and Alan Pope are back in Studio A for episode 15 of season 3 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

Subscribe:-

	Hi-Fi	Lo-Fi
Ogg
Mp3

In this week’s show:-

We talk about about what we’ve been doing including nothing, going on holiday, syncing files with Ubuntu One and upgrading to Mythbuntu 10.04.
We interview Jonty Wareing about the London Hackspace
In the news:-
We mention some upcoming events:-
- Ohio Linux Fest – Free and Open Software Conference and Expo – Columbus, Ohio – September 10-12, 2010
- OSS Bar Camp – Open Source themed Barcamp – University College Dublin on the 25th and 26th of September
Command line love this week was contributed by loyal listener Mark Johnson:-
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We chat with Bruno Girin from the UK LoCo about his work on Shotwell, the new photo suite to Ubuntu from Yorba
We mention some Ubuntu related news in the Gerald/bit-about-Ubuntu/ecosphere:-
- Artwork team dial-up the ~~vomit~~ orange in the new 10.10 background
- Some new Training Courses available from Canonical
- No Ubuntu Desktop Course for 10.04 LTS
- Ubuntu Certified Professional qualification axed

Student after student has told us that the value of the training is the training itself. The courses are all focused on making businesses or individuals more knowledgeable and more successful in deploying our technology in their organisation. They are practical, hands-on, how-to, process-rich courses that also introduce users to the wide world of support documentation, forums, peer networks and other supporting resources that will allow students to continue to learn and share learning long after the course is over.

Because we are not 100% convinced that an Ubuntu Professional certification adds value for the student who has taken the course when hands-on practicality is the aim, we have decided not to offer certification at this point. This is something we will continue to evaluate. We will talk to partners and students and we will learn from delivering these courses whether there is a meaningful certification that adds value beyond the course itself. And we would love to hear your views.”

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Laura Cowen, Tony Whitmore and Alan Pope are back in Studio A for episode 15 of season 3 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team! Subscribe:- Hi-Fi Lo-Fi Ogg Mp3 In this week's show:- We talk about about what we've been doing including nothing, going on holiday, syncing files with Ubuntu One and upgrading to Mythbuntu 10.04. We interview Jonty Wareing about the London Hackspace In the news:- Goodbye Openslowlaris Steam on Linux rumours squashed (or are they?) Microsoft are nice really Except King Doofus himself - Paul Allen Diaspora to open up source real soon now Linux is Free software, honest! ATI is dead! Long Live AMD! We mention some upcoming events:- Ohio Linux Fest - Free and Open Software Conference and Expo - Columbus, Ohio - September 10-12, 2010 OSS Bar Camp - Open Source themed Barcamp - University College Dublin on the 25th and 26th of September Command line love this week was contributed by loyal listener Mark Johnson:-bashish We chat with Bruno Girin from the UK LoCo about his work on Shotwell, the new photo suite to Ubuntu from Yorba We mention some Ubuntu related news in the Gerald/bit-about-Ubuntu/ecosphere:- Artwork team dial-up the vomit orange in the new 10.10 background Some new Training Courses available from Canonical No Ubuntu Desktop Course for 10.04 LTS Ubuntu Certified Professional qualification axed "With the release of these new courses, we have also re-assessed certification. The UCP course has to date been certified by the Linux Professional Institute. This will discontinue on September 30th and anyone waiting to complete their exams should do so by then. We had considered delivering our own certification and examinations for the courses however, as we looked deeper into it we began to question this. Student after student has told us that the value of the training is the training itself. The courses are all focused on making businesses or individuals more knowledgeable and more successful in deploying our technology in their organisation. They are practical, hands-on, how-to, process-rich courses that also introduce users to the wide world of support documentation, forums, peer networks and other supporting resources that will allow students to continue to learn and share learning long after the course is over. Because we are not 100% convinced that an Ubuntu Professional certification adds value for the student who has taken the course when hands-on practicality is the aim, we have decided not to offer certification at this point. This is something we will continue to evaluate. We will talk to partners and students and we will learn from delivering these courses whether there is a meaningful certification that adds value beyond the course itself. And we would love to hear your views." Finally we have your feedback Comments and suggestions are welcomed to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org Leave us some segment ideas on the Etherpad Join us on IRC in #ubuntu-uk-podcast on Freenode Leave a voicemail via phone: +44 (0) 203 298 1600, sip: podcast@sip.ubuntu-uk.org and skype: ubuntuukpodcast Follow our twitter feed http://twitter.com/uupc Follow us on Identi.ca http://identi.ca/uupc Find our Facebook Fan Page Discuss this episode in the Forums

Leaving the Ubuntu UK podcast.

2010-09-01T10:06:57+00:00

Three years ago, Alan Pope asked me if I’d like to join him and a few others in making a podcast about Ubuntu from/for the UK. My initial reaction was that I have nothing to offer; sure I’m a bit of a geek but that’s about it, I certainly don’t think I can speak from a position of authority with regard to Linux. The other thing that they possibly hadn’t considered was that, at the best of times I’m more of a listener than a speaker; if you check back to season one of the show you’ll certainly hear that that’s the case!

But I said yes, and the whole team ploughed enthusiastically into producing the show, and we had a great time. Sure it was hard work and we made a lot of changes to make sure the show was what we wanted it to be (as we do now) but it was a lot of fun.

Two and a half seasons later, I think the show is quite successful, we get a massive amount of downloads and there’s a fair sized community behind the show too. Unbelieveably we’ve been on stage twice for live shows as part of OggCamp which is an incredible buzz even though the anticipation isn’t much fun. What some people can’t understand is that we make the show just for the love. That means that every two weeks we drive for 2 hours, spend around 3 hours recording, then about another 6 hours producing the show. Pre-show preparation is continual and we’re always adding bits to the show notes so that we record what we hope is current and relevant to our wide audience.

But now after 3 years it’s time to move on, and I’ll be leaving at the end of this year.

I’m not the kind of person that wants or needs recognition, but I’m not feeling the passion anymore. That’s not just for the show, but for the whole “get involved” nature of Ubuntu. In the the last few episodes of the show I’ve spoken about getting away from the computer and doing other things; I guess that leaving the show was inevitable.

It’s been an absolute blast and I’ve learned a spectacular amount about producing podcasts, Ubuntu and the community, and possbily most importantly working with other people who only have themselves as a driving force. I don’t plan to become a recluse, but as I said at the beginning I’m a quiet chap by nature… we’ll just have to see.

Rest Well, My Friend

2010-09-01T06:51:55+00:00

It was with great sadness that I read earlier that my friend and colleague Ian Clatworthy passed away after his fight with cancer. Although I never knew Ian that well, whenever I did work and spend time with him I always found him to be a fun, light-hearted, and always pleasant person to be around.

Words escape me.

You will be missed, my friend. Rest, well.

LoCo Team banners for Approved teams

2010-08-31T16:36:40+00:00

Following on from my post last week regarding the up to date conference packs and the new banners for APPROVED teams, we have created a new wiki page we need the team contact to fill in. Again, a big thank you goes to Canonical for making this possible!

The wiki pages lists the teams at present who are approved at present, please do not add any more teams in there without consulting the LoCo Council. Team contacts need to update the wiki AND mail shipit with the relevant information on the wiki page. The banners are not ready as of yet but will be soon, and we need to have this information at hand when we have them in stock. Remember when updating the wiki to check if someone else is editing it to avoid wiki conflicts!

Incredible Stories Of Free Software and Open Source

2010-08-30T19:12:11+00:00

A little while back I blogged about wanting to reconnect with our ethos. In a continuation of that theme I am keen to talk about stories.

I have talked about stories quite a bit in my writings on community management (particularly so in my book The Art of Community). Stories are important entities in communities – they are vessels in which we share ideas, lessons we have learned, our experience and more. Many stories come laced with these underlining nuggets of wisdom that we then take aware and help us to refine and improve how we interface with the world and the people around us.

Stories though encompass another significant benefit: they allow us to inspire and encourage others via real-world practical examples of our ethos being put into practice.

A story I share at every Ubuntu Developer Summit is that when I started working as the Ubuntu Community Manager I got a lovely email from a kid in Africa who would walk two hours to his local town where he would spend his own money to buy Internet time in an Internet cafe to contribute to Ubuntu and then walk two hours back home. This story was powerful to me. It told me that my job is to help that guy get the most out of his hour, to justify his investment of energy and expense to just get involved in the first place. His story was inspiring, encouraging, and an impressive example of commitment. I always share this story at UDS as an inspiration for us to get the most out of each one-hour session.

These stories benefit us all, and in the continued theme of reconnecting with our ethos, I wanted to ask you folks what are the most inspiring and encouraging stories of Free Software and community that you have heard? Which story have made those little hairs on the back of your neck stand on end?

Ubuntu Hour in Waterloo, Ontario on September 1, 2010

2010-08-30T16:24:37+00:00

As Ubuntu Hour is starting to be a regular occurrence in the Waterloo region, the next one will be happening on Wednesday, September 1, 2010 8pm. The location will be Whole Lotta Gelata, probably a good place in this current heat wave in Southern Ontario :)

Ubuntu Hour is an event which is very good for anyone to come and to ask questions about Ubuntu, exchange tips and tricks, and have a whole lotta fun. This particular event, we also will be talking about the upcoming Software Freedom Day (September 18, 2010) which we will organize an event which will be happening in the Kwartzlab. So if you have interest in this event, or even better, would like to contribute in the organization of the Software Freedom Day, please feel free to come to the Ubuntu Hour this week!

OpenPGP key transition

2010-08-29T23:24:31+00:00

I recently decided, in advance of any future events I may attend, to join the bandwagon and transition away from my old 1024D key (20BFCDC7) to a lovely new 4096R key (1C5041D4). This post is my transition announcement. You can find the transition document here, and below. Both keys will still be valid for the time being, but I shall not be renewing the old one after it expires on 2010-11-26, and it will be revoked shortly thereafter. As far as possible, I'd appreciate all correspondence to use the new key.

If, after reading the transition document, you feel comfortable signing my key (and have signed the old one), then I'd appreciate your signature via email.

(format of transition document cribbed from Matt Zimmerman's transition, thanks!)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1,SHA256

,----[ OpenPGP key transition ]
| Time-stamp: <2010-08-30 00:08:28 laney>
`----

I've recently set up a new GPG key, and will be transitioning away from
my old one. I have done this in order to migrate to a larger RSA key and
stronger hash functions, and NOT due to any known key compromise.  The
old key will continue to be valid for some time, but future
correspondence should use the new one wherever possible.

This message is signed by both keys to certify the transition.

The old key was:

pub   1024D/20BFCDC7 2007-11-27
Key fingerprint = 2B1E 742E B9CA C441 EA0B  4CBA 3F2D 129C 20BF CDC7
uid                  Iain Lane <iain@orangesquash.org.uk>
uid                  Iain Lane <laney@ubuntu.com>
uid                  Iain Lane <ial@cs.nott.ac.uk>
uid                  Iain Lane <psxil@nottingham.ac.uk>
sub   2048g/5D64CB7D 2007-11-27 [expires: 2010-11-26]

and the new key is:

pub   4096R/1C5041D4 2010-08-29 [expires: 2013-08-28]
Key fingerprint = 3D0E FB95 E7B5 237F 16E8  2258 E352 D5C5 1C50 41D4
uid                  Iain Lane <iain@orangesquash.org.uk>
uid                  Iain Lane <psxil@nottingham.ac.uk>
uid                  Iain Lane <laney@ubuntu.com>
uid                  Iain Lane <ial@cs.nott.ac.uk>
sub   4096R/8FB24134 2010-08-29 [expires: 2013-08-28]

To fetch my new key from a public keyserver, you can run:

gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 1C5041D4

and verify its fingerprint matches the one above:

gpg --fingerprint 1C5041D4

If you already know my old key, you can now verify that the new key is
signed by the old one:

gpg --check-sigs 1C5041D4

If you have previously signed my old key, and you're satisfied that
you've got the correct new key, then I'd appreciate it if you would sign
my new key as well:

gpg --sign-key 1C5041D4

Then I would appreciate it if you would mail me the signed key. A lot of
people like to use caff(1) to sign keys.

Thanks,
Iain Lane
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Au Pair needed for 3 cute Irish Monkies in Toronto

2010-08-29T20:39:38+00:00

My closest and dearest friend left Ireland 2 years ago due to the construction industry recession over here. She packed up her bags and 3 kids and headed west and landed in Guelph Toronto and hasn’t looked back since. She has 3 lovely kids Saoirse 10 and twins Alannah and Cillian who are 4.5.

She’s looking for an Au Pair to mind the kids. The Twins need minding 2 days a week as they’ve just started school. So before and after school otherwise. Tara works as a health and safety manager for a construction company, and travels a small amount so on those times she’d like the person to be able to stay over.

The eldest is 10 and in Grade 5, and the twins are starting Junior Kindergarden in Sept. If you’re fun reliable and looking for work do contact her and meet 3 great kids!

Ubuntu Global Jam Ireland a great success

2010-08-29T11:51:08+00:00

Thanks to the folks over at Tog who kindly offered us space to meet up and work on Ubuntu Global Jam. It was I think the best one so far for us. 8 people turned up over the day and we worked on different areas and helped one another. It was great to see two people who’d never log a bug before get excited how they could log all their information in the ubuntu-bug command so that was pretty good to see.

Mike took on the task of giving the Irish wiki page a massive overhaul, we gave him some ideas and showed him how to create the fancy sub header, so it’s now looking very nice. Rory worked on some LoCo Directory bits namely the stuff he logged as bugs Others worked on Answers on Launchpad and triaging bugs so all in all a great day was had. Thanks to all those who came in it was great to see new faces there. It was great to get people using Ubuntu in ways they never had, learning how to create their own wiki pages and logging into the LoCo Directory and showing them how to look up events.

Taking the show on the road – again!

2010-08-28T12:55:22+00:00

You might have heard us talk about this on the latest episode of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK, but we’re going to be at OSSBarCamp in Dublin on the 24th and 25th September. We went last year and had a great time. Now it’s grown to a two day event, has two streams and a coding competition. There’s a already a lot on the timetable, including talks from Alan, me and my good friend Matt Revell. We’re also going to be doing a live podcast recording on the Saturday, so come along and watch us sweat and prattle our way through an hour show! I’m really looking forward to doing another live show, and we’ll certainly be ready for the party at the Landsdown Hotel afterwards…

Come along and say hello!

On Zareason

2010-08-27T23:06:30+00:00

These views are my own, and not necessarily those of Canonical.

Some time back the always awesome Earl and Cathy from Zareason loaned me one of their Strata laptops to play with. I met them at an event some time before, and while I had heard of Zareason, I really knew nothing about them. Since then I have learned about their work and played with the Strata. I just wanted to share some thoughts.

Zareason are a company that I think really gets Open Source. They are a small organization and incredibly supportive of Open Source in the local area and wider USA. They pre-install Ubuntu on their machines, focus on open hardware, and one really nice touch is that they include a small screwdriver with each machine because they believe that everyone has the right to be able to open up their machines and peek inside. In this age of screwless, inaccessible boxes and restrictive end-user license agreements, this is a refreshing change. Like most, I would never actually use said little screwdriver…but it is a strong statement of Zareason and their culture. Kudos!

So, as for the machine, it is a zippy little monster and works great. The pre-installed Ubuntu worked great out of the box, with pretty much everything running as expected. One thing that really struck me, is regarding build quality. I consider build quality an essential ingredient in a laptop. Laptops move around a lot, they get thrown into bags, and they get picked up, dragged around and balanced in precarious ways. The Zareason Strata I tried felt incredibly durable…as in…Thinkpad durable. I absolutely adore Thinkpads for this very reason, so again, Kudos Zareason.

Finally, a big decider for me in a laptop is the keyboard. There are many great laptops with horrible plasticky keyboards. The Zareason Strata has a really comfortable, useful, and durable keyboard. It feels strong but not difficult to use. Again, kudos Zareason.

So, Zareason produce great, solid, hardware pre-installed with Ubuntu, they are actively supportive of the Open Source community, and they affirm openness in both the software and hardware. Sounds like a pretty good deal to me.

Spring Cleaning the wiki over UGJ Weekend

2010-08-27T20:53:07+00:00

There is an enormous amount of useful information on wiki.ubuntu.com however there is also a lot of duplicate triplicate and redundant material on there also. This weekend why not get your loco reviewing a section of the wiki and help to clear up some of the pages. I’ve noticed sometimes that a page was created in lower case and then never used as someone else created the wiki in upper case, well then the one not used should be removed.

The LoCo Council are going to be looking over the sections of the pages LoCo Teams and if you want to help that would be great. A lof of that information is on the LoCo Directory – I’d hope by now folks know about the directory………………

If you go through the wiki and find all the pages that are out of date, unused or the information is over on the LD already add the Category “CategoryLoCoObsolete” to it. We the LC will review the pages and decide their fate. So don’t be worried.

FYI — to add a Category, just append:

----
CategoryLoCoObsolete

to the bottom of a page. If there’s already a Category, do this:

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CategoryAwesomeTag CategoryLoCoObsolete

I’ll be in #ubuntu-locoteams on Satuday from 9am UTC – 4pm UTC and on Sunday from 10am UTC – 7pm UTC

Global Jam in Kitchener, Ontario

2010-08-26T15:45:26+00:00

On Saturday, 28th August 2010 1:00pm - 9:00pm at the kwartzlab, The Kitchener/Waterloo Chapter of Ubuntu Canada will participate in the Global Jam. Everybody is invited. We will have lots of fun, socializing and will learn and teach how everybody can help and contribute to the Ubuntu project.

If you are in Quebec, please look at our friends event in that part of Canada!

This Friday: Rockridge Ubuntu Global Jam In Berkeley

2010-08-26T00:35:24+00:00

Just a quick reminder: as part of our awesome Ubuntu Global Jam I am organizing the Ubuntu California Rockridge Jam at A’cuppa Tea, College Ave, Berkeley. The jam is from 10am – 6pm – I hope to see you there!

Don’t live near me? Go and find your nearest jam or organize your own!