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+-   Study about Debian governance, social organization-> on Monday April 14 2008, @07:47AM andremachado

Submitted by andremachado on Monday April 14 2008, @07:47AM
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andremachado writes "Two academic management researchers, Siobhán O'Mahony and Fabrizion Ferraro, performed a detailed scientific study about Debian Project governance and social organization from the management perspective.

How a big non-commercial non-paying community evolved and actualy produces some of the most respectable Operating Systems and applications packages available?

Organizations without a consensual basis of authority lack an important condition necessary for their survival. Those with directly democratic forms of participation do not tend to scale well and are noted for their difficulty managing complexity and decision-making — all of which can hasten their demise.

The Debian Project community designed and evolved a solid governance system since 1993 able to stablish shared conceptions of formal authority, leadership and meritocracy, limited by defined democratic adaptative mechanisms.

http://www.techforce.com.br/index.php/news/linux_blog/scientific_study_about_debian_governance_and_organization"
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