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Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 04:34:39 JST Luis Villa

Missed this Sunday. I think some sorts of engineering projects are very hard to make welcoming in this way, but I should probably still sit with the challenge rather than rejecting it out of hand.
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  Adam Greenfield (adamgreenfield@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 04:34:37 JST Adam Greenfield
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  @edsu @luis_in_brief Washing dishes at the moment, but can’t wait to see where this conversation goes! 👊
  
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  Ed Summers (edsu@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 04:34:38 JST Ed Summers
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  @luis_in_brief I'm not disagreeing (or trying to be disagreeable) but do you have an example?
  
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  Adam Greenfield (adamgreenfield@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 04:35:16 JST Adam Greenfield
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  @edsu @luis_in_brief Washing dishes at the moment, but can’t wait to see where this conversation goes! 👊
  
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  Adam Greenfield (adamgreenfield@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 05:36:47 JST Adam Greenfield
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  @luis_in_brief @edsu Very rich seam here, and you make some great points. The first thing I want to pick up (and I treat this explicitly in “Lifehouse”) is that invitationality in the Occupy Sandy case *absolutely* depended on the abundance and availability of labor, to the degree that an uncharitable observer might characterize some of the things I saw people doing at 520 as the nonhierarchical equivalent of makework, i.e. people doing self-directed, low-intensity things that may not have been
  
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  Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 05:36:48 JST Luis Villa
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  @edsu @adamgreenfield (4) it works best when the newcomer is likely to be engaged, motivated, and trustable: eg, in the post-Sandy situation (as in most post-disaster situations, despite looter myths) new helper almost certainly was not a thief, so high-trust/low-barrier works great.
  That’s true of the median open source contributor, but as we’ve learned the hard way the long tail of trolls/black-hats is very long and highly-motivated :( Unclear how to balance that reality with invitationality.
  
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  Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 05:36:50 JST Luis Villa
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  @edsu @adamgreenfield (3) work that is highly parallel; i.e., if new person off the street does does something slowly or badly, it doesn’t slow/stop work for others.
  Wikipedia does this very well, which is part of its success despite otherwise not being very invitational.
  Traditional software development used to be *actively terrible* at this, which was a competitive advantage for open software for a long time. But for many mid-size software projects it is hard.
  
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  Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 05:36:51 JST Luis Villa
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  @edsu @adamgreenfield (2) a certain excess amount of labor which allows for both "people doing work" and "people performing invitationality".
  I suspect if invitationality is built into the culture from an early point, this boundary can be made more porous, but again it's easier IRL when you can trivially *invite* someone to "observe over my shoulder" in a way that's trickier online (but again that could be designed for in tools)
  🧵 more if I remember after my :30 meeting...
  
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  Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 05:36:52 JST Luis Villa
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  @edsu perhaps @adamgreenfield can push back, but as I read it his invitationality implies a few things:
  (1) tasks that can be done immediately (or nearly immediately) by "the person off the street"; this is rare in open engineering projects (though some projects try to change that, with varying degrees of success)
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  Adam Greenfield (adamgreenfield@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 05:39:30 JST Adam Greenfield
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  @edsu @luis_in_brief in material furtherance of the OS mission, but neither interfered with that mission, alone or in very small groups disconnected from the main functional areas of the hub. I’d wager that this in itself lent the space a quality of being easy to participate in, and, as you suggest, it meant too that there were always bodies available to greet, do intake and indoctrination, etc.
  
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  Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 05:41:38 JST Luis Villa
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  @adamgreenfield @edsu yeah. At least some open communities have had success along these lines by welcoming people into “intro” tasks like evangelism, or in the Wikipedia case, simply fixing typos. (My origin story is in part about a very invitational part of Mozilla based around bug *triage*, which could be done with just some common sense v. actual engineering chops.)
  
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  Adam Greenfield (adamgreenfield@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 05:42:06 JST Adam Greenfield
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  @edsu @luis_in_brief Uhh, let’s see: as far as “looking over someone’s shoulder” goes, someone I’d like to properly credit (but who I can’t, due to the broken search up in this place) yesterday posted a response to the thread that offered the example of “legitimate peripheral participation,” and that felt right to me – though, again, as you observe, far easier to realize in some contexts than in others. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimate_peripheral_participation
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    Legitimate peripheral participation (LPP) describes how newcomers become experienced members and eventually old timers of a community of practice or collaborative project (Lave & Wenger 1991). LPP identifies learning as a contextual social phenomenon, achieved through participation in a community practice. According to LPP, newcomers become members of a community initially by participating in simple and low-risk tasks that are nonetheless productive and necessary and further the goals of the community. Through peripheral activities, novices become acquainted with the tasks, vocabulary, and organizing principles of the community's practitioners. Gradually, as newcomers become old timers and gain a recognized level of mastery, their participation takes forms that are more and more central to the functioning of the community. LPP suggests that membership in a community of practice is mediated by the possible forms of participation to which newcomers have access, both physically and socially. In the case of a mentor-mentee relationship between older timers and newcomers, the old timer has both the power to confer legitimacy to the newcomer, and to control the...
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  Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 05:46:02 JST Luis Villa
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  @adamgreenfield @edsu 👀 wow, that’s a great label for so much of what I’ve been able to benefit from in open over the years.
  And what’s increasingly hard to do in many open contexts, because of … well, a whole shit-ton of factors that mostly are well-intended but often have the side-effects of reducing trust and increasing pressures towards efficiency and output.
  
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  Adam Greenfield (adamgreenfield@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 05:47:32 JST Adam Greenfield
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  @edsu @luis_in_brief @cfiesler @ldodds FWIW, I have, uh, not felt that.
  
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  Leigh Dodds (ldodds@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 05:47:33 JST Leigh Dodds
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  @luis_in_brief @edsu @adamgreenfield @cfiesler looking over your list, OSM has all of this I think? And the chapter/local mappers setup helps to blur lines between different ways of working and learning together
  
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  Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 05:47:35 JST Luis Villa
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  @edsu @adamgreenfield none of this is to say that Adam’s concept is bad; I genuinely want to explore what an invitational culture would look like in many open contexts. I suspect that if you built it in from day one, some pretty interesting things would result. (I should revisit @cfiesler on AO3 through this lens…)
  
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  Adam Greenfield (adamgreenfield@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 05:48:10 JST Adam Greenfield
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  @edsu @luis_in_brief Right? I found it a super-helpful framing.
  
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  Adam Greenfield (adamgreenfield@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 05:49:04 JST Adam Greenfield
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  @cfiesler @edsu @ldodds @luis_in_brief lol. I’m glad someone said it.
  
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  Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 05:49:05 JST Luis Villa
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  @ldodds @edsu @adamgreenfield @cfiesler other than it being completely undiscoverable and technically undecipherable, yes ;)
  
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  Adam Greenfield (adamgreenfield@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 05:54:51 JST Adam Greenfield
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  @edsu @luis_in_brief @cfiesler Yes, I want to be clear that @ldodds was clearly responding in optimism and good faith! The fact that I don’t, personally, think OSM is the greatest model only speaks to the very great difficulty technical initiatives face in being anything like invitational as I’ve tried to define it here.
  
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  Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 05:54:52 JST Luis Villa
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  @ldodds @edsu @adamgreenfield @cfiesler (I don’t think you’re completely wrong, to be clear; to the extent OSM does invitationality well, that is part of why it has survived at all despite often having very high barriers to entry. But I haven’t burned through all my remaining store of snark from the other place yet…)
  
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  Adam Greenfield (adamgreenfield@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 05:56:51 JST Adam Greenfield
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  @cfiesler @edsu @ldodds @luis_in_brief See, I don’t understand what that means. And I’m someone who tried to contribute locational information for 12,000 Chicago bus stops to the project, unsuccessfully.
  
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  Leigh Dodds (ldodds@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 05:56:53 JST Leigh Dodds
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  @adamgreenfield @cfiesler @edsu @luis_in_brief might depend on your entry point. In terms of low barriers to entry I think hard to improve on StreetComplete or MapSwipe. And I found HOT projects more accessible than full map contribs.
  
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