Tag Archives: motivation
Working for Free? – Motivations of Participating in Open Source Projects
I’ve been asked to summarize an article by Alexander Hars & Shaosong Ou about motivations of participating in open source projects written in 2000 for a psychology course. It was very interested to see how many things can motivate one … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux, Fedora, Mozilla, Openoffice.org, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu
kSar – Fixing bugs (almost) online
While working with kSar to visulize sar’s statistics, a friend found a bug with kSar. Most IT people don’t think they can have access to the developers, I reminded my friend that we’re dealing with an open source application and … Continue reading
Status of the 2nd Debian Openoffice.org bug triage
10 days have passed since the start of the triage, and more than 40% of the bugs were handled. 71 bugs were confirmed to be already fixed in recent versions of openoffice.org and about 50 were confirmed to still exist. … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux, Openoffice.org, QA stuff
The 2nd Debian Openoffice.org bug triage
In 24 hours 21% of the triage is already done due to an amazing responsiveness from Debian’s openoffice.org users. From the total of 285 bugs targeted by the triage, 35 were closed and 27 were reproduced. Another 20 bugs are … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux, Openoffice.org, QA stuff
Getting motivation from other people work and cooperation
Recently, I found it hard to contribute to open source in general and Debian in particular. There are several reasons for that: beginning with less free time to contribute and continuing with feeling my contribution becomes more and more routine … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux
