The Ecclesiastes principle: Learning lessons of the past
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The Ecclesiastes principle
Learning the lessonsof the past
Dave Neary, Red [email protected] / @nearyd
Ecclesiastes 1:9What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
The Great Frontier
3 examples
ArchitectureCity planning
Diplomacy
Community intimacy gradient
● Public: Forum, public mailing list, ...● Semi-public: IRC, blog comments, ...● Semi-private: Moderated mailing list,
invitation-only IRC channel, BOFs/meet-ups, ...
● Private: Private email, phone, face to face
MixedUses
Professional Amateur
The projects that have been the most successful... are good at all sorts of “soft skills”
David Eaves
Harvard Negotiation Project
● Founded in 1970s● Been used in international peace negotiations,
business negotiations, ...
A typical “negotiation”
I'll give you 40 for it
40? It cost me more! I'll give it to
you for 70.
You're joking! I'll give you 50, not
a penny more! You're a good customer, I could go to 60,
not a penny lessI can go to 53,
but that's all the cash I have with me
Negotiation overview
Interests
Options
Legitimacy
Discussionspace
Relationship Communication
Negotiations in Open Source
● Mailing list discussions● Bug report closed as “Not a bug” and reopened● Patch review● Feature priority● Conflict resolution
Photo credits:Slide 1: CC by-sa 2.0 by doratagold on FlickrSlide 3: Public domainSlides 6-8: “A Pattern Language”, Alexander et alSlide 12: “The Death and Life if Great American Cities”, JacobsSlide 13: CC by-sa 3.0 by revizionist on WikipediaSlide 15: Public domainSlide 16: CC by 2.0. Pencil by taylor.a on flickr, Cassette by victoradrianramia on flickrSlide 18: © David Eaves
Thank you!