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I was talking to Hugh Macleod of gapingvoid<\/a> yesterday – he is one of the world’s foremost practitioners in the art of social object creation and community sustenance. Stormhoek<\/a> wines. The Blue Monster<\/a>. The Gaping Void itself: cartoons on the back of business cards (what more social object is there than a non-boring business card<\/a>? Hugh was MOO<\/a> before MOO came through.) This morning it struck me – with open source every project, every component, every bug fix is a social object. Open source software is social media. It has rules and connection points, repositories and group norms. Subversive thinking around Subversion<\/a>. OSS projects are tools for finding like minds. Ohloh<\/a> is a new service that begins to span the two worlds. When I went to do a quick search on “social object” at Hugh’s place I came across this<\/a>, which led me to this<\/a>, which finally led me here<\/a>, where I could check out these 5 principles of social objects, as put forward by Jaiku<\/a> founder Jyri Engstrom.<\/p>\n 1. You should be able to define the social object your service is built around. This blog is really just a placeholder for discussion. Am I barking or does OSS as social media make sense? It certainly fosters good conversations. I tend to think the reason Hugh got his analysis of OSS so wrong here<\/a> is that he wasn’t thinking about social objects, but “shareholder value”. Interestingly enough open source software projects don’t obey Hugh’s Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n bonus thoughts: O’Reilly’s architecture of participation. The incredible power of View Source. And so on… <\/p>\n bonus link: Open source applications\u2026magnets for open source infrastructure<\/a>.<\/p>\n next update: It seems Tom Coates gets it, points out Leisa<\/a>. From his presentation Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts<\/a>, key sources of personal motivation in online social networking, being:<\/p>\n 1. Anticipated Reciprocity Like OSS, yes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was talking to Hugh Macleod of gapingvoid yesterday – he is one of the world’s foremost practitioners in the art of social object creation and community sustenance. Stormhoek wines. The Blue Monster. The Gaping Void itself: cartoons on the back of business cards (what more social object is there than a non-boring business card?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-jN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n 2. Define your verbs that your users perform on the objects. For instance, eBay has buy and sell buttons. It’s clear what the site is for.
\nsource code and version control <\/strong>
\n 3. How can people share the objects?
\ndepends on the license<\/strong>
\n 4. Turn invitations into gifts.
\nthis will help you too, can you help me improve it for both of us?<\/strong>
\n 5. Charge the publishers, not the spectators.
\nnot sure how this maps to OSS<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n 2. Reputation
\n 3. \u2018Sense of Efficacy\u2019
\n 4. Identification with a group<\/p>\n