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There is no crowd in crowdsourcing. There are only virtuosos, usually uniquely talented, highly trained people who have worked for decades in a field.

There is no crowd in crowdsourcing. There are only virtuosos, usually uniquely talented, highly trained people who have worked for decades in a field.

Framework for thinking strategically about Mozilla grantmaking, to help guide the choice of problem areas in which Mozilla organizations might make grants and the creation of detailed strategies for each such area. The goal is for Mozilla to be a catalyst in spurring innovations and addressing problems in areas relevant to the Mozilla mission that are important for the future of the open web but have been relatively neglected by us or others who share our vision and values.

"No amount of general 'Just jump in, please join us!' shouting will work if the potential contributors you're trying to reach don't think that any such invitation could possibly be directed towards them.

We generally feel that through developing most of our infrastructure code in public there are various benefits for us as a commercial vendor.

Somebody that has posted a patch has: learned how to download the source, has learned how to build your project, has stepped through your code to find and understand their bug or new feature, and most importantly has shown a tremendous amount of initiative.

Although a completely volunteer organization, the ASF has helped create some of the most important technologies underpinning the modern Internet. Here, we look at some of the Apache technologies that have changed computing over the last decade, as well as those Apache technologies poised to change computing in the next 10 years.

How do sponsored open source communities differ from their autonomous counterparts?