(2006-02-16) Blaser Open Source Society

Britt Blaser on moving toward an Open Source Society. But I hadn't thought about why they're so productive. Then I realized it's because they never get bogged down with all the meta conversations that drag down Managerial Capitalism: "Who's paying for this?" "When do we get approval?" "Who gets credit for this?" Yada, yada... But the developers of OSS2 (Open SourceSociety; OSS1 is Open SourceSoftware), whose work we desperately need if we are to escape from the political specialists who've hijacked governance, don't behave like that (OSS1 people self-assemble from component services - blogs, wikis, calendard sites; OSS2 people want it all at one place). Many of the people who are best qualified to be producers of OSS2: a new Open Source Society, are grandparents. Yep. They're society's best judge of the Core Value-s we should maintain, but they're also the least technical among us. The OSS2 developers we seek to serve are ready and able to form groups and describe their pain and hopes.