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Is life peachy? Yes No Go coding/fishing/ Stick head in sand. diving... Sunday, July 1, 12 Meritocracy in KDE Part of the Companies are Community series Akademy 2012 Mirko Boehm (mirko@kde.org) Sunday, July 1, 12 CWD: ~

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Yes No

Go coding/fishing/ diving... Is life peachy? Stick head in sand.

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Meritocracy in KDE Part of the “Companies are Community” series

Akademy 2012 Mirko Boehm (mirko@kde.org)

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CWD: ~ miroslav@silberpfeil: >whoami

KDE Contributor since 1997:
- Hacking (kdecore, kdepim, applications)
- board member 1999 to 2006
- Desktop Summit 2011
FSFE Germany team member
researching Free Software and Intellectual Property

issues at TU Berlin

married, two kids, lives in Berlin

CWD: ~ miroslav@silberpfeil: >

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How things get better - an algorithmic perspective.

Yes No

Take appropriate action. Go coding/fishing/ diving... Is life peachy?

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Observe

Part I

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Is life peachy at KDE?

Surprise: Yes, it is. (Mostly.)
KDE - Largest meritocratic

volunteer driven FLOSS community.

Outstanding product.
Stable contributor base, easy

to join, healthy fluctuation.

Role model for how

communites work.

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Symptoms of Friction

Users complaining about lack of quality improvements.
Users complaining about lack of transparency.
Contributors leaving for non-technical reasons.
Failure to integrate commercial ecosystem.
Problems establishing vendor pickup.

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How are others doing?

Open Governance Index: “Equal and fair treatment of developers –

‘meritocracy’ – has become the norm, and is expected by developers with regard to their involvement in open source projects.” [1]

Here is Sebas’ and my assessment of KDE’s rating: 74%, second best.

Android Qt Symbian MeeGo Mozilla WebKit Linux KDE Eclipse 100 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 Percent Points Sunday, July 1, 12

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Reflect

Part II

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Voice or Exit

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Community

Meritocracy of all individuals who contribute
Self-directed
All doors open approach
(S)He who does the work decides

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KDE e.V.

Stakeholder’s association of volunteer contributors
Only individual membership, no entities
Invite-only membership
Passive, supporting membership models
Secret by default

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The role of commercial contributors

Formal Economy Informal Economy Peer Production Companies Volunteers

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Act!

Part III

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Our vision: Improve by default

Get better in every iteration

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Proposal: Extend the Code of Conduct

Contributor’s Rights and Responsibilities

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Contributor’s Responsibilities

Be open about goals
Be transparent about activities
Be committed longer-term
Be generous
Be humble

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New: Contributor’s Rights

Influence development
Be an equal among peers
Benefit from own contributions
Be part of the community, collaborate
Exercise the Four Freedoms

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Proposal: Open by Default

Improve Transparency

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Minimize Discrimination

Technical vs. non-technical

contributors

Volunteers vs. companies
Users vs. contributors vs. e.V.

members

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Thank you for listening!

Questions?

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References

[1] http://www.visionmobile.com/product/open-governance-index
Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/44523343@N00/474411576/

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