The dilemma and crisis of students ' forming open source community

Many universities have a group of students who like technology, many people come together to set up an open source community, this is good, but the development of things is far less smooth.

Open source community sounds like a good formation, as long as a vote of the people, everyone add a QQ group, which even the initial formation of success. In the future to build a forum website or something, a whim to go to GitHub upload a few personal development of small projects, which is formally established.

But entrepreneurship is easy to Yeh, the open source community is to contribute as a standard of discourse, the student community in this point is difficult to do, or it is easy to go. Basically according to the majority of people's thinking, who lead the establishment of who will be responsible for the right of speech, that is, he and the majority of the views of the disagreement, so big can not separate. This led to the students open-source community after a long period of development is not up, slow to do results, even the basic technical exchange links are not together. After a a year, GitHub is still a few lines of code, the blog home page is still a declaration, no new things appear, the open source community lifeless.

The bottom line is that the community doesn't have a good system for security, and when everyone turns their eyes to what technology to discuss and which open source agreement they choose, they overlook the importance of something beyond technology, which is the cornerstone of the community as a whole.

If the system of the community makes other members feel that their reasonable advice is not considered at all, and that they have no sense of existence, then the human heart is dispersed and the community is not far from the disband.

To stabilize the operation of a community is very difficult, the founder is generally the most voice, and the hands of the community of all kinds of resources, including the site server, group Management Authority, and so on these can for their own greater decision-making power, which violates the original intention of the contribution to measure the right of speech. It is a real problem that hard-to-do people will not be treated unfairly because of their differences with their founders, and whether the community as a whole has only a few people to decide. Although the technical community should be purely a point, but there is an organization of the "power" of this kind of things, inevitably, how to rationally allocate the right of decision-making discourse, to ensure that the development of the community is good upward, this is the problem that every community has faced. Especially in the face of the students this inexperienced not deep group.

Open source is not only the exploration of technology, but also the development of organizational system, this article is only my own little feeling, thanked you crossing.

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The dilemma and crisis of students ' forming open source community