{"id":1012,"date":"2009-06-07T13:06:52","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T21:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2009-06-07T13:06:52","modified_gmt":"2009-06-07T21:06:52","slug":"collaboration-conflict-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2009\/06\/07\/collaboration-conflict-people\/","title":{"rendered":"collaboration = conflict + people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thinking a lot about why <a href=\"http:\/\/opensourcebridge.org\">Open Source Bridge<\/a> is happening.<\/p>\n<p>One of the ideas that keeps popping up for me is constructive conflict. Searching for some inspiration, I googled &#8220;open source in-person collaboration&#8221; and came across David Eaves&#8217; post &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/eaves.ca\/2009\/05\/26\/why-collaborative-skills-matter-in-open-source\/\">Why collaborative skills matter in open source<\/a>.&#8221;  His main point about the collapse of transaction costs comes from Clay Shirky&#8217;s book <em>Here Comes Everybody<\/em>, which I am also reading.<\/p>\n<p>That led me to an older post David wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/eaves.ca\/2007\/02\/05\/wikis-and-open-source-collaborative-or-cooperative\/\">the difference between collaboration and cooperation<\/a>. And, suddenly, the light turned on. <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, as I mapped out the five minute &#8220;why we&#8217;re here&#8221; talk I&#8217;ll give to kick off the conference, I said to Audrey, &#8220;Above everything else, our goal is collaboration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Between people new ideas are produced as the result of conflict. Without conflict, we don&#8217;t have collaboration, we only have accommodation and cooperation. And I completely agree that online communities encourage cooperation, sometimes at the expense of collaboration.  <\/p>\n<p>How do we encourage more collaboration? At least for now, Audrey and I have both focused on in-person connections. For the highly-distributed projects, this poses several problems &#8211; cultural, logistical and financial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thinking a lot about why Open Source Bridge is happening. One of the ideas that keeps popping up for me is constructive conflict. Searching for some inspiration, I googled &#8220;open source in-person collaboration&#8221; and came across David Eaves&#8217; post &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2009\/06\/07\/collaboration-conflict-people\/\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[212,154],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference","tag-collaboration","tag-conferences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions\/1015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}