Blog Prompt 5

Read the following: - Read the The Cathedral and the Bazaar in The Cathedral and the Bazaar pp 21-63

In your fifth blog entry of the semester, address each of the following bullets (1 or more paragraph each):

• What is something that you learned or found interesting in this essay and what is something that you each found confusing or didn’t understand or disagreed with?
• Summarize what Raymond means when he refers to “cathedral” and “bazaar” community models. Discuss some advantages of each model and some disadvantages.
• According to Raymond, what makes a good leader within the bazaar model? How do you see your particular skill set fitting into this model? What might you need to work on to fit into this model?
• Aside from open source software development, what other domains can you think of that make use of a bazaar model? Can you think of any specific examples of bazaar-like communities other than FOSS projects?

Remember in order to receive credit for each blog entry, you must do both of the following:

• Post your entry to your blog.
• Additionally, copy and paste the text of your entry to Moodle. (This should only take a couple of minutes.)

The best blog entries will be honest, thoughtful, and critically reflective. Here are some blog examples of the differences between reporting, reflection, and critical reflection.

This entry is due by 8 am on the day of our next class

Modification of an assignment by Emily Lovell, Berea College