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Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software

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  • Jul 14, 2020
  • #ComputerProgramming #OpenSourceSoftware
Nadia Eghbal
@NadiaEghbal
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An inside look at modern open source software developers--and their applications to, and influence on, our online social world. "Nadia is one of today's most nuanced thinkers about... Show More

An inside look at modern open source software developers--and their applications to, and influence on, our online social world.

"Nadia is one of today's most nuanced thinkers about the depth and potential of online communities, and this book could not have come at a better time." --Devon Zuegel, director of product, communities at GitHub

Open source software--in which developers publish code that anyone can use--has long served as a bellwether for other online behavior. In the late 1990s, it provided an optimistic model for public

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Number of Pages: 256

ISBN: 0578675862

ISBN-13: 9780578675862

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Balaji Srinivasan @balajis
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This is now out on Kindle for $10. Nadia is very smart and it’s worth reading anything she writes on open source.
Alex Danco @AlexDanco · Oct 5, 2020
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PSA: @nayafia’s book Working in Public: the making and maintenance of open source software is 1) really good, 2) it’s about way more than software; it’s about the future
Sriram Krishnan @SriramKrishnan · Oct 5, 2020
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It’s fantastic
Erik Torenberg @ErikTorenberg · Dec 31, 2021
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Given excitement around new innovations in democratic governance, it's good to read Nadia Eghbal's "Working in Public", which adds more nuance to the utopian stereotype that all open source projects are bottoms-up and democratically built/governed.
Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag · Feb 22, 2021
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Yes great book
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