In the head of network governance and influence, independent core developers like to put the community — this is the first habit to look at.
Obviously, this is written by the nature of such decentralized technology and the new level of interaction between the simplest community member on project’s social media, who produces a critical comment, and the final direction of the product’s code development.
This element of connection and reaction appears and feels good to grow up only in -like, open source environments.
Commercial mass market products are not able to provide third-party devs, interested users or somehow appeared “communities” with almost anything available in tech crypto world. Comments are unlikely to beat the commerce.
The closest example of such an attempt to attract third-party developers for the interests of a commercial closed-source thing can serve the glorious messenger “Telegram” and its naked APIs for the bot platform. Conclusions about the community’s or devs’ engagement in this event you can make by yourself. For now, let’s say it is a fine possibility comparing to other social networking platforms.
This example shows the best option for attracting third-party devs into the centrally controlled project on multi-million users level.
Well, now we can go back and appeal to open platforms with easily formed communities all around the world and tens of significant, additionally based .
All of those people have different points of view: the vision of development and the final product, customer’s needs and technical ideology, solutions and its modifications, etc.
Moreover, there are no red lines between the definition of amateur toys and strategic products. In one moment, anything can be turned into everything with more freedom, bigger possibility, and less needed resources than on corporations-owned territory.
The is stronger and rewards are higher — one more good reason to attract non-engaged in topic devs on the place.
A good description of such a situation with the comparison of environments for code developments could be the XVI-XIX centuries seas. There, most likely, devs would have to pick up a side: to be a pirate in a group of other pirates, bigger or smaller, or to be a navy member, attached to the government-like structure.
Fatter structures (no matter if navy ships or pirate ships) are the company- and corporation-like groups, lighter structures (whatever your ship is about) are the core dev teams and part-time enthusiasts/amateurs.
This looks like a question for your attitude to individualism and value of minority instead of the importance of social stability.
Therefore, development space can be easily concurrently in front of classical devs-under-corps system in terms of workspace attractivity and has more chances to attract people because of ideology than because of salaries amounts.
At least, some doesn’t look less interesting, than the next banana office work on banana products for banana consumers, for example.
Published at Sun, 17 Feb 2019 16:02:44 +0000
