Cultural Diversity and Open Source Communities
summary
Life across three continents (Taiwan, Singapore, US, Finland) supplies concrete contrasts: classroom norms that normalize copying homework; US courses where class participation counts ~20% of the grade and students loudly debate; Finnish culture that favors quiet collective communal work. Openness appears as three definitions (accommodating attitude, transparency, open code), conflicting stats (11% vs 3% women cited), volunteer-driven events, and practical advice: offer alternatives to IRC vs Slack and accept broken English as usable communication.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:19Calvin and Hobbes
- 3:04Last year at Red Hot Summit
- 7:31Education in Asia
- 11:09Western influence
- 17:46Open Source
- 21:41Communication tools
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