This Weeks Readings!

David’s lecture is a great accompaniment to The cathedral and the bazaar!

Something that really struck me about his lecture is the analogy to an open source project as a bustling festival.  Hans-Georg Gadamer’s ideas really resonate with the ideas of open source as a bazaar.

A festival has a mood, and standards, established methods of doing things.
As well as relatively loose rules and details.      -> so does an open source project.

An impenetrable open-source project, is no longer quite as impenetrable after viewing it this way.  A project requires you to just go, you become assimilated into it over the course of the project, the requirement to understand everything about it becomes redundant.

Its not about fully understanding it (initially.), its about going to enjoy the show.