[Novalug] Explaining tech to the non-tech minded

[Jay Hart]

My reply to this person would be: "How do you collaborate in your company with
outside organizations or entities when trying to develop a new product or
serivce".

In my opinion, F/OSS works the same as any other collaboration project, in any
type of field. Humans been doing this type of things for centuries.

Jay


> Hello Folks,
>
> As a member of the Tux.Org Board of Directors (BoD) I happened to receive the
> following email message with a query of how to explain FOSS cooperation and
> development to the non-technically or business minded.
>
> I'm coming to the List for suggestions/analogies/pictograms/anything.
>
> I am also reprinting part of the letter below for your perusal.
>
> megan
>
> -------------------  Reprint  ----------------------------
>  I think it would be very informative and
> interesting if Tux.org could graphically illustrate how a community of users
> (and corporations alike) collaborate to develop and evaluate open source
> software. It strikes me that very few policymakers understand the actual
> mechanics of how an open source community works -- from software
> repositories, to Concurrent Version Systems (CVS) tools, to patch
> contribution, to Peer Review, and collaboration. The organic aspect of the
> project.
>
> For the layperson, this grassroots process probably seems incomprehensible.
> But, I suspect that you could create a presentation that quickly -- and
> hopefully graphically -- goes through the steps that is at the heart of the
> open sources collaborative process -- which results in software.
>
>
> --
> C. Megan Larko
> Treasurer
> Tux.Org Inc.
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