Lightning Talk: How Not to Make Open Source - Lessons Learned
Lightningat Open Source Summit Europe 2023 · on Tuesday, 2023-09-19· at 12:25· Room 3F (3JAUREGIA - Floor 3), Abandoibarra Etorb., 4, 48011 Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain·
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Wikimedia Deutschland finds that openness stalled by practice not license: 1200+ commits to wikibase in a year yield 75 contributions from 7 non‑Wikimedia contributors, and a GitHub org of ~55 shows only 8 people making 130 outside contributions. Root causes are a wikibase monolith that takes months to onboard, a single‑maintainer posture, frequent in‑house reimplementations ("not invented here"), and hiring the bulk of contributors instead of cultivating sustained external involvement.
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