The Life & Death of Great American Cities: Urban city planning and OSS
summary
Compares midcentury city plans to open source with concrete claims: safety comes from eyeballs and social norms not more guards, bugs shrink under Linus's Law, and unclear public/private rules (licenses, public APIs — think Google vs Oracle) repel enterprise users. Classifies projects into federations, clubs, stadiums, toys and calls Spinnaker a federation; notes Netflix and Armory run on Spinnaker — Netflix deploys via Spinnaker thousands of times a day — and reports the community built multiple user pathways over four years to boost diversity and steady contributions.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction to city planning
- 4:55Security safety and defects
- 12:32Why people join communities
- 15:42Classifying open source projects
- 17:26Governance in communities
- 19:11Diversity in cities and OSS
- 21:37Blocks streets and highways
- 24:03Building sustainable communities
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