The document discusses motivations for developers contributing to open source software projects. It explores both intrinsic motivations like learning new skills, having fun, and helping others as well as extrinsic motivations like payment, employment opportunities, fame, and completing projects. The document also examines whether payment crowds out intrinsic motivations and the role of social and community norms in open source software development.

1. Would you do it again
for free?
Stormy Peters
OpenLogic

2. Playing: Fun or Good?

3. Nuclear Waste: 50%
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4. Nuclear Waste: 25%
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5. NYC Schools

6. Israeli
Daycare
Parents

7. Make
them pay

8. Late
Forever

9. Would you do it
again for free?

10. Success

11. Dream
Jobs

12. Will they quit?

13. 40% are paid
contributors
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14. You would, but
would they?

15. Company
change
project?

17. What
motivates
developers?

18. Why?

19. Extrinsic
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20. TOP motivators are
internal
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Motivation Crowding Theory

21. Intrinsic
Motivations

22. Interesting

23. Learn = 20% raise

24. Creative
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25. Need
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26. Skills

27. Clever

28. Fame

29. Do the
Right Thing

30. 1/3 feel software
should be open
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31. Developer
Motivations

32. Payment

33. Is payment
normal?
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34. Performance
or
Completeness

35. Employment

36. In Kind

37. Bounties

38. Grants
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39. Real world?

40. Have
projects
failed?

41. Inequality
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42. Where do people go?
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43. by Rails
Ru
OSSDiscovery

44. Would it really be
the same?

46. Hunter Gatherers
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47. Agriculture

48. Left brain jobs

49. Creators

50. Design
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51. Dream
Jobs

52. Company
Methods

53. Dictate

54. create
company
way
create
my
way

55. Frustrated?

56. Creators

57. Help
corporations
do the right thing

58. Show them

59. The Open Source Census
http://www.osscensus.org