Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:10:58 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Stine Madsen <stine_wm@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Culture Message-ID: <20050418224057.GS82272@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <BAY22-DAV14B9C117799DFCE69877F1EF290@phx.gbl> References: <BAY22-DAV14B9C117799DFCE69877F1EF290@phx.gbl>
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--LXqH7sWsIplhrbjF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday, 18 April 2005 at 23:24:32 +0200, Stine Madsen wrote: > FreeBSD Culture > We are four undergraduate students (1st year) who have chosen Organizatio= nal > Culture and FreeBSD as the subject for our major written project. The > underlying assumption for our project is that the FreeBSD community can be > viewed and described within the framework of the theory for Organizational > behavior and culture - that is; as a 'virtual' organization. To investiga= te > and clarify this, we would like to confer with participants of the FreeBSD > community who are well-informed of the how's and why's of FreeBSD. > > The following non-exhausting list holds examples of questions we would li= ke > to clarify: > > - Does there exist myths, 'legends' and stories concerning FreeBSD, which > are common knowledge in the community. Certainly! Try googling for "bikeshed", for example. With some luck, you might experience one Real Soon Now. > - How does one get to be a member of '-core'? Or more accurately, > how does a member advance in the FreeBSD community? Heh. As an ex-member of core, I'd say: participate, contribute, underestimate the work and stand for election. But I'm sure others will give you better results. > - Is the language described in the 'jargon file' used and understood by a= ll > members of the community? Some of it. Other terms are strongly rejected, er, deprecated. > - What motivates people to join the FreeBSD community and to contribute to > the common course? Good question. I'll leave that to others. > - Is it possible to improve the structure of the FreeBSD community? Of course! Or of course not! =20 > We are not sure where to post questions like these - and if > freebsd.org as a suitable forum for those kind of > questions. Suggestions and thoughts about this will be much > appreciated. I'm copying the FreeBSD-chat list, which may gain you further coverage. > All communication will be by mail, and all participants will be > anonymous should the prefer so. That wouldn't be the FreeBSD way. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --LXqH7sWsIplhrbjF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCZDd5IubykFB6QiMRAibgAJ931UfLvIVLm5TfaOXWtg+NdfW8kQCdEf8i 6/bpt1Rt/LcXhZ7oD16sueo= =BIIT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LXqH7sWsIplhrbjF--
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