Optional Assignment: Motivation and the Open Source Software Movement

1) Watch the following video

2) Do some additional research about open source software to understand what it is, how it is developed, and most importantly, what unique considerations are required to support this distributed development community.

3) Write a one-page paper that explains:

  • Why individuals are motivated to contribute to open source software; and,
  • What the open source communities must do as organizations to support healthy growth of these contributions.