10 Mar 2005 nymia   » (Master)

Social Experiment

A question came up last night while thinking about the future of the team. The question was: Is it possible to leverage the methods implemented in setting up a winning team to another field of application, like a tech company? If so, how? What are the necessary tweaks needed to recruit the right people to work for a team? Where and when is the origin of the starting point?

So many questions, so few answers. Yet, I think the answer is out there.

Wireless Service

Things are moving well, I never thought the prototype framework will work on the first round of testing. Turns out the modules were coded and installed simply that all of them passed the simple test.

Nothing to lose, all to gain

I was surprised to hear my teammate mentioned "We have nothing to lose, but everything to gain." He said it in the context of competing with the best team of the league. He knew the team has the potential to get there and he said it like he knows each will do his job in making that happen. My reply to him was to take the challenge in a cool way. No pressures are there to force anyone to work hard, though. It must come from the individual himself. Each one motivated enough to know it takes team effort to play against the best teams of the league.

Cooperative Competition

I've thought about the concept of cooperative competition in relation to how groups and projects compete within the domain of Free Software and Open Source. My first argument is basically Sed Contra as this kind of competition will cause stagnation in the later part of the process. At the start of stagnation, competition will approach zero. As a result, developers will migrate to other interesting projects.

Destructive competition may be anathema since it can cause projects and companies to fall based on economic and social reasons. Though considered rude, this kind of competition basically mirrors the real world.

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