http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/03/github/
"As people who were once just users become producers, they’re re-shaping the culture of open source. GitHub, I believe,
is doing to open source what the internet did to the publishing
industry: It’s creating a culture gap between the previous, big-project
generation of open source and a newer, more amateurized generation of
open source today."
"This workflow is very empowering: It encourages individuals to fix
things and own those fixes just as much as they own the projects they
start. It also gives all users an identity in the new open source
culture; GitHub is actually the number-one identity provider for
peer-based production over the internet in more than just code."
I'll have to keep up with Github! Another tool for making collaboration easier.
Internet Collective Action is people organizing in a nonhierarchical manner to accomplish a particular goal. The reward is in the doing, and how much or how little anyone participates is completely voluntary, depending on their abilities and commitment to the goal. By this process amazing things can be accomplished. ICA will grow so long as the Internet is free. http://www.lisamcpherson.org/pc.htm is an example of ICA.
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