The political implications of having fun (while programming open source)
summary
A PhD study uses an online questionnaire and regression to model engagement as a function of fun and available time, collecting about 1,330 responses and a Swiss company subsample, and explains 27–32% of engagement variance. Results show fun maps linearly to engagement, hackers report more fun than paid professionals, and contextual factors (project mission, optimal challenge, deadlines, absence of formal authority) correlate with fun — notably deadlines increase fun rather than kill it.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:10Why fun in programming
- 3:46Meaningful fun defined
- 12:06Open source vs commercial
- 21:52Industrial to knowledge economy
- 35:40Political implications of fun
- 42:12Excluded from knowledge economy
- 52:17Study methodology
- 1:03:12Global work futures
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