Interesting debrief on Drumbeat

[Steve Lee]

http://openmatt.org/2012/02/16/byebyedrumbeat/

These 2 comments stood out

"Collaborative innovation really works. Bringing technologists
together with innovators in other spaces = win. We brought filmmakers
together with developers and got Mozilla Popcorn. We brought
educational innovators together with developers and got Mozilla
Hackasaurus and Open Badges. Hybrid innovation really works".

"Trying to over-engineer Mozilla’s way of working. We thought that
creating project pages and activity streams could help  projects get a
leg up and go faster. It didn’t. There’s (probably) no magic template
or piece of software that helps projects work open. Ultimately, that’s
more of a culture and know-how problem than a technology problem."

[E.A.]

Thanks so much Steve - this really is interesting - I think I need to
learn more about the 'know-how problem' as we are starting another
open source project around the open source Synote project - Synote
Mobile thanks to JISC. We also really want to get REALISE out there
for others to help us collaborate on open source AT ideas.