Development Context
Multinational
- USA, UK, Canada, Italy, The Netherlands, ...
All Volunteer
- Everybody has (at least) one other real job
Differing subgoals
- Enlightened Self-interest
No CEO, President, Manager, or even Secretary
- Coordination tasks are voluntary
- Volunteers get tired/busy, rotate tasks
- Decisions made by consensus, voting
- 36 hours to make a serious decision
The Apache Group:
A Case Study of Internet Collaboration and Virtual Communities
(Roy T. Fielding,
02 May 1997)
UCI School of
Social Sciences Seminar Series on the World-Wide Web