[Debconf6-data-commit] r492 - in procedings: .
51-A-Force-To-Be-Reckoned-With 51-A-Force-To-Be-Reckoned-With/orig
Alexander Schmehl
tolimar at costa.debian.org
Mon Apr 10 21:02:05 UTC 2006
Author: tolimar
Date: 2006-04-10 21:02:04 +0000 (Mon, 10 Apr 2006)
New Revision: 492
Added:
procedings/51-A-Force-To-Be-Reckoned-With/
procedings/51-A-Force-To-Be-Reckoned-With/orig/
procedings/51-A-Force-To-Be-Reckoned-With/orig/tmp.html
procedings/51-A-Force-To-Be-Reckoned-With/paper.tex
Log:
added mako 'a force to be reckoned with' paper
Added: procedings/51-A-Force-To-Be-Reckoned-With/orig/tmp.html
===================================================================
--- procedings/51-A-Force-To-Be-Reckoned-With/orig/tmp.html 2006-04-10 21:00:57 UTC (rev 491)
+++ procedings/51-A-Force-To-Be-Reckoned-With/orig/tmp.html 2006-04-10 21:02:04 UTC (rev 492)
@@ -0,0 +1,130 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
+<head>
+<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
+<meta name="generator" content="Docutils 0.3.7: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/" />
+<title>Debian: A Forced To Be Reckoned With</title>
+<link rel="stylesheet" href="default.css" type="text/css" />
+</head>
+<body>
+<div class="document" id="debian-a-forced-to-be-reckoned-with">
+<h1 class="title">Debian: A Forced To Be Reckoned With</h1>
+<p>Abstract:</p>
+<blockquote>
+<p>This talk offers a "Debian Themed" quick tour through the academic,
+legal, and business worlds. It overs insight into what everyone
+outside of Debian is saying about, doing with, and learning from the
+Debian project.</p>
+<p>In doing so, it hopes to give Debian participants some insight into
+fields and areas that they are largely unfamiliar with (e.g.,
+management, sociology, anthropology, economics, computer supported
+collaborative work, etc.). It illuminates what others -- especially
+academics -- find useful or inspiring about the project and to
+facilitate self-reflection and self-improvement within Debian. It
+reflects on the impact that Debian has had in the world beyond the
+Debian project and, in particular, in those areas that many Debian
+developers may not be familiar with.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>Over the past ten years, Debian has assembled an impressive list of
+achievements. Many of these achievements are immediately recognizable
+and intimately familiar to most Debian participants. These
+achievements, all made by the Debian project and <em>within</em> the Debian
+project, include the fact that Debian has built up tens of thousands
+of packages, hundreds of derivatives, more than a thousand volunteers,
+a dozen quality releases, a handful of superb technologies and tools,
+and hundreds of thousands of fixed bugs.</p>
+<p>Certainly, Debian's has built an unparalleled distribution. Equally
+impressive, but more difficult to see from within the project, is the
+major effect that Debian has on other projects and in other
+realms. For example:</p>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>In academia, dozens of papers on Debian have been written and
+published from a variety of different perspectives. Researchers,
+some working within the Debian project and some completely detached,
+have unpacked the processes, motivations, and technologies that make
+Debian work.</li>
+<li>Legal scholars and license writers are increasingly aware and
+respectful of Debian in a variety of ways and the project continues
+to play an important role in the way that software and other forms
+of creative works are licensed and the way that licenses are written
+and revised.</li>
+<li>As people sit down to write software -- free or not -- they
+increasingly look to Debian as a model that can teach them a number
+of important things.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>While the analysis and conclusions in each of these areas paint a
+diverse and divergent set of pictures, together they demonstrate that
+Debian is a <em>very</em> interesting place to a large number of people for
+reasons that most of know nothing about. This talk aims to illuminate
+these areas.</p>
+<p>Many of Debian's qualities and our achievements that are most
+interesting and important to others are overlooked or unknown within
+the project. In some cases, Debian simply takes things for granted. In
+others, developers' position in the center of the mix just makes things
+difficult to see. This talk aims to walk developers on a four-stop
+tour through Debian -- as seen by those outside Debian or working
+outside of the distro-building world.</p>
+<p>Through this tour, it aims to accomplish three goals:</p>
+<ol class="arabic simple">
+<li>To make Debian folks happy! This talk will provide Debian insiders
+with reasons to feel happy about their own achievements by
+demonstrating -- with academic citations no less! -- the impact
+that the project has had in a variety of fields. It will also
+illuminate the less favorable criticism. Luckily, the good feedback
+seems to outnumber the bad.</li>
+<li>To provide in-depth insight into extra-Debian analysis of Debian so
+that, with added perspectives, we can better understand ourselves
+and our processes: our strengths and our weaknesses.</li>
+<li>To make developers and others more conscious of their impact, their
+actions, and their strategies. Through this process, it hopes to
+prompt a self-reflective process where Debian can engage those
+outside the project in ways that build upon their knowledge to help
+us and to create mutually beneficial relationships.</li>
+</ol>
+<p>The talk will focus in four areas where Debian has been studied or had
+major influence outside of the world distribution building:</p>
+<p><em>Social Science and Collaborative Work:</em> The talk will focus on
+academic literature of the social, ethical, and collaborative
+processes that make Debian successful. It will also touch on the
+academic literature on trust-building, mutual aid, and
+decision-making. It will introduce some of the conclusions and
+critiques leveled by researchers in these areas.</p>
+<p><em>Software Engineering:</em> This talk will pull from some of the work on
+software engineering techniques, review, quality, collaborative
+processes, and other areas that have been done with the Debian project
+as a subject or example. It will offer academic reviews and analysis
+of project processes and policies and suggestions that may be implicit
+in theses results.</p>
+<p><em>Derivatives:</em> Debian Derivatives that build on the work of Debian
+have clearly learned many things from Debian. Many of these are good
+things which they explicitly try to replicate in their own
+projects. Others are things they have moved away from Debian. Yet
+others are mistakes that Derivatives have made that Debian may want to
+avoid. This section will provide a whirlwind tour through these and
+will focus on my personal experience with the Ubuntu project.</p>
+<p><em>Licenses:</em> In the last year, Debian has played an important role in
+the revision processes of two major sets of licenses (the GNU GFDL and
+the Creative Commons licenses). The DFSG and Debian-legal have also
+played important roles in influencing thinking about free software
+licensing in the world beyond Debian. In the next year (as other talk
+proposals have alluded to) the FSF will be releasing the GPLv3. In
+this context, it is worth reflecting on the way that Debian has -- and
+has not -- been able to successfully influence licensing by third
+parties who want their software in Debian.</p>
+<p>These four areas provide a good overview of four very different areas
+in which Debian has succeeded. This talk will build off my personal
+experience with Debian in many of these areas. For example, I have
+participated in academic research on Debian and have published three
+peer-reviewed articles about the project: two
+anthropological/sociological and one from the software engineering
+perspective. As a result, I am very familiar with the literature on
+Debian. Through my work with the Ubuntu project, I am also familiar
+with one of the most important Debian derivatives and what is has
+learned from and taken from Debian by derivatives. Finally, I have
+participated in both the GFDL and Creative Commons negotiation
+committees within Debian and have been following licensing issues,
+inside and outside Debian, for several years.</p>
+</div>
+</body>
+</html>
Added: procedings/51-A-Force-To-Be-Reckoned-With/paper.tex
===================================================================
--- procedings/51-A-Force-To-Be-Reckoned-With/paper.tex 2006-04-10 21:00:57 UTC (rev 491)
+++ procedings/51-A-Force-To-Be-Reckoned-With/paper.tex 2006-04-10 21:02:04 UTC (rev 492)
@@ -0,0 +1,130 @@
+\section{Abstract:}
+
+This talk offers a "Debian Themed" quick tour through the academic,
+legal, and business worlds. It overs insight into what everyone
+outside of Debian is saying about, doing with, and learning from the
+Debian project.
+
+In doing so, it hopes to give Debian participants some insight into
+fields and areas that they are largely unfamiliar with (e.g.,
+management, sociology, anthropology, economics, computer supported
+collaborative work, etc.). It illuminates what others -- especially
+academics -- find useful or inspiring about the project and to
+facilitate self-reflection and self-improvement within Debian. It
+reflects on the impact that Debian has had in the world beyond the
+Debian project and, in particular, in those areas that many Debian
+developers may not be familiar with.
+
+\section{}
+Over the past ten years, Debian has assembled an impressive list of
+achievements. Many of these achievements are immediately recognizable
+and intimately familiar to most Debian participants. These
+achievements, all made by the Debian project and \em{within} the Debian
+project, include the fact that Debian has built up tens of thousands
+of packages, hundreds of derivatives, more than a thousand volunteers,
+a dozen quality releases, a handful of superb technologies and tools,
+and hundreds of thousands of fixed bugs.
+
+Certainly, Debian's has built an unparalleled distribution. Equally
+impressive, but more difficult to see from within the project, is the
+major effect that Debian has on other projects and in other
+realms. For example:
+
+\begin{itemize}
+ \item In academia, dozens of papers on Debian have been written and
+ published from a variety of different perspectives. Researchers,
+ some working within the Debian project and some completely detached,
+ have unpacked the processes, motivations, and technologies that make
+ Debian work.
+ \item Legal scholars and license writers are increasingly aware and
+ respectful of Debian in a variety of ways and the project continues
+ to play an important role in the way that software and other forms
+ of creative works are licensed and the way that licenses are written
+ and revised.
+ \item As people sit down to write software -- free or not -- they
+ increasingly look to Debian as a model that can teach them a number
+ of important things.
+\end{itemize}
+
+While the analysis and conclusions in each of these areas paint a
+diverse and divergent set of pictures, together they demonstrate that
+Debian is a \em{very} interesting place to a large number of people for
+reasons that most of know nothing about. This talk aims to illuminate
+these areas.
+
+Many of Debian's qualities and our achievements that are most
+interesting and important to others are overlooked or unknown within
+the project. In some cases, Debian simply takes things for granted. In
+others, developers' position in the center of the mix just makes things
+difficult to see. This talk aims to walk developers on a four-stop
+tour through Debian -- as seen by those outside Debian or working
+outside of the distro-building world.
+
+Through this tour, it aims to accomplish three goals:
+
+\begin{enumerate}
+ \item To make Debian folks happy! This talk will provide Debian insiders
+ with reasons to feel happy about their own achievements by
+ demonstrating -- with academic citations no less! -- the impact
+ that the project has had in a variety of fields. It will also
+ illuminate the less favorable criticism. Luckily, the good feedback
+ seems to outnumber the bad.
+ \item To provide in-depth insight into extra-Debian analysis of Debian so
+ that, with added perspectives, we can better understand ourselves
+ and our processes: our strengths and our weaknesses.
+ \item To make developers and others more conscious of their impact, their
+ actions, and their strategies. Through this process, it hopes to
+ prompt a self-reflective process where Debian can engage those
+ outside the project in ways that build upon their knowledge to help
+ us and to create mutually beneficial relationships.
+\end{enumerate}
+
+
+The talk will focus in four areas where Debian has been studied or had
+major influence outside of the world distribution building:
+
+
+\begin{itemize}
+ \item \em{Social Science and Collaborative Work:} The talk will focus on
+academic literature of the social, ethical, and collaborative
+processes that make Debian successful. It will also touch on the
+academic literature on trust-building, mutual aid, and
+decision-making. It will introduce some of the conclusions and
+critiques leveled by researchers in these areas.
+ \item \em{Software Engineering:} This talk will pull from some of the work on
+software engineering techniques, review, quality, collaborative
+processes, and other areas that have been done with the Debian project
+as a subject or example. It will offer academic reviews and analysis
+of project processes and policies and suggestions that may be implicit
+in theses results.
+ \item \em{Derivatives:} Debian Derivatives that build on the work of Debian
+have clearly learned many things from Debian. Many of these are good
+things which they explicitly try to replicate in their own
+projects. Others are things they have moved away from Debian. Yet
+others are mistakes that Derivatives have made that Debian may want to
+avoid. This section will provide a whirlwind tour through these and
+will focus on my personal experience with the Ubuntu project.
+ \item \em{Licenses:} In the last year, Debian has played an important role in
+the revision processes of two major sets of licenses (the GNU GFDL and
+the Creative Commons licenses). The DFSG and Debian-legal have also
+played important roles in influencing thinking about free software
+licensing in the world beyond Debian. In the next year (as other talk
+proposals have alluded to) the FSF will be releasing the GPLv3. In
+this context, it is worth reflecting on the way that Debian has -- and
+has not -- been able to successfully influence licensing by third
+parties who want their software in Debian.
+\end{itemize}
+
+These four areas provide a good overview of four very different areas
+in which Debian has succeeded. This talk will build off my personal
+experience with Debian in many of these areas. For example, I have
+participated in academic research on Debian and have published three
+peer-reviewed articles about the project: two
+anthropological/sociological and one from the software engineering
+perspective. As a result, I am very familiar with the literature on
+Debian. Through my work with the Ubuntu project, I am also familiar
+with one of the most important Debian derivatives and what is has
+learned from and taken from Debian by derivatives. Finally, I have
+participated in both the GFDL and Creative Commons negotiation
+committees within Debian and have been following licensing issues,
+inside and outside Debian, for several years.
More information about the Debconf6-data-commit
mailing list