Open Source at Netflix by Ruslan Meshenberg.
A great plug for open source (among others):
Improved code and documentation quality – we’ve observed that the peer pressure from “Social Coding” has driven engineers to make sure code is clean and well structured, documentation is useful and up to date. What we’ve learned is that a component may be “Good enough for running in production, but not good enough for Github”.
A question as much to myself as anyone: Where are the open source topic maps?
There have been public dump sites for topic maps but have you seen an active community maintaining a public topic map?
Is it a technology/interface issue?
A control/authorship issue?
Something else?
Wikipedia works, although uneven. And there are a number of other similar efforts that are more or less successful.
Suggestions on what sets them apart?
Or suggestions you think should be tried? It isn’t possible to anticipate success. If the opposite were true, we would all be very successful. (Or at least that’s what I would wish for, your mileage may vary.)
Take it as given that any effort at a public topic map tool, a public topic map community or even a particular public topic map, or some combination thereof, is likely to fail.
But, we simply have to dust ourselves off and try other subject or combination of those things or others.