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An inside look at modern open-source software developers - and their influence on our online social world.
Open-source software in which developers publish code that anyone can use has long served as a bellwether for other online behavior. In the late 1990s, it provided an optimistic model for public collaboration, but in the last 20 years it shifted to solo operators who write and publish code that's consumed by millions.
In Working in Public, Nadia Eghbal takes an inside look at modern open-source software development, its evolution over the last two decades, and its ramifications for an internet reorienting itself around individual creators. Eghbal, who interviewed hundreds of developers while working to improve their experience at GitHub, argues that modern open source offers us a model through which to understand the challenges faced by online creators. She examines the trajectory of open-source projects, including:
The platform of GitHub, for hosting and development
The structures, roles, incentives, and relationships involved
The often-overlooked maintenance required of its creators
And the costs of production that endure through an application's lifetime
Eghbal also scrutinizes the role of platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Twitch, YouTube, and Instagram that reduce infrastructure and distribution costs for creators but massively increase the scope of interactions with their audience.
Open-source communities are increasingly centered around the work of individual developers rather than teams. Similarly, if creators, rather than discrete communities, are going to become the epicenter of our online social systems, we need to better understand how they work and we can do so by studying what happened to open source.
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Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
10.09.2020, Stripe Press
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Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
2020, Stripe Matter Inc
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1953953301 9781953953308
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Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
Aug 04, 2020, Stripe Press
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0578675862 9780578675862
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