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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:26am on 2006-06-20 under

"Open source software development, to a degree unmatched by any other modern profession, offers apprentices the opportunity to watch journeymen and masters at work, to interact with them, and to learn how they think, work, succeed, and fail." -- Jon Udell, "Open Source Education", Infoworld ("Strategic Developer" column), vol. 28, no. 24 (2006-06-12), p. 38 (online copy is dated 2006-06-07).

[My own reaction: I'm not sure it's quite unmatched; there are similar aspects to being a folk musician.]

Other snippets from the same column: "Shared code is just the tip of the iceberg. Below the waterline, there's a vast body of shared knowledge and tradition, grounded in what Tim O'Reilly calls an architecture of participation." And, "When apprentices, journeymen, and masters engage in a continuous cycle of learning and teaching, an old approach to education is made new again."

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posted by [identity profile] selki.livejournal.com at 02:11pm on 2006-06-20
Thanks for the link, combines two of my interests!

Are folk musicians' song development processes online/available to inspection as much (especially by non-locals) as open source software development?
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posted by [identity profile] writerjanice.livejournal.com at 06:56am on 2006-06-21
Some writers and musicians do that. I think that key comparison is that traditionally, most folk musicians learn by playing with other musicians. Very little formal "teaching" is done. Often you will see this at festivals, where a couple of players start playing, then more join in. Almost always players will try to repeat the "licks" and techniques that others are using. Then afterwards, you will see small knots of players, exchanging ideas and tips, teaching each other..

Janice
Software developer, sometime writer, sometime player of music
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posted by [personal profile] siderea at 06:08pm on 2006-06-20
I'm trying to wrap my brain around the concept of "folk musician" being a "modern profession". Don't you have to make a profit for it to be a profession? ;)
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posted by [identity profile] pedropadrao.livejournal.com at 09:56pm on 2006-06-20
We're running into the exact opposite problem at my workplace-the main burst of hiring happened about 40 years ago, & it's just dawned on the bigwigs that they need to bring in new workers & pass on the accumulated wisdom of the previous generation to them. Let's just say that I could go on for pages on why this is so...
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