Working In Public The Making And Maintenance Of Open Source Software Nadia Eghbal Eghbal by Nadia Eghbal [eghbal, Nadia] B08BDGXVK9 instant download after payment.

An inside look at modern open source software developers--and their influence on our online social world.
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 collaboration,
but in the last 20 years it s shifted to solo operators who write and
publish code that's consumed by millions.
In Working in Public,
Nadia Eghbal takes an inside look at modern open source software
development, its evolution over the last two decades, and its
ramifications for an internet reorienting itself around individual
creators. Eghbal, who interviewed hundreds of developers while working
to improve their experience at GitHub, argues that modern open source
offers us a model through which to understand the challenges faced by
online creators. She examines the trajectory of open source projects,
including:
-- the platform of GitHub, for hosting and development;
-- the structures, roles, incentives, and relationships involved;
-- the often-overlooked maintenance required of its creators;
-- and the costs of production that endure through an application's lifetime.
Eghbal also scrutinizes the role of platforms like Twitter, Facebook,
Twitch, YouTube, and Instagram which reduce infrastructure and
distribution costs for creators, but which massively increase the scope
of interactions with their audience.
Open source communities
are increasingly centered around the work of individual developers
rather than teams. Similarly, if creators, rather than discrete
communities, are going to become the epicenter of our online social
systems, we need to better understand how they work and we can do so by
studying what happened to open source.