Linux and Linux community: perspectives and points of view
Content
Three aspects
Technical and Social in Linux?
Dimensions of ’free’ and ’open’
Radical localism
Expansion of the ’Linux Community’
Kernel hackers
Credit files
Distributions
Linux user groups
LUGs by Continent (members)
LUGs by language
FLUG
The “community”?
FLUG - Finnish Linux User Group
Boudaries of a community
Steps in analysis
Discussion topics by month
Discussion (cont)
one thread
Young hackers vs. old gentlemen
Opening (ap1)
Young Hackers (ap 3)
Old gentlemen
Tensions in the thread
Discussion themes by subgroup
Local practices
Ulvila 1999
Otaniemi 1999
Helsinki 1999
Lahti 2001
Some functions of FLUG
Conclusions
Conclusions2
Author: Jussi Silvonen
e-mail: jussi.silvonen@helsinki.fi