Treading on the pitfalls, but also on the successes of open source communities, Alexios Zavras raises seven principles that future online projects should follow if they are to survive in the vast sea of the Internet. He concludes that “a lot can be learned from the history and experience” of floss software communities and that “these lessons can be of tremendous importance to other online communities that are being formed now or will be formed in the future”.

Link: The trouble with wiki politics: Lessons learned from open source software communities – Alexios Zavras