Complete Translation of Community Building: Social Architecture

“This is the essence of thirty years of software development experiences.”

Greetings, Habr.

I want to introduce the best (only) book on building communities, written by IT IT specialist.

For myself, I found applicable tools for analyzing community / organization "on the fly" (I and more than 100 people conducted an "audit" of Habr ), as well as tips on which " genotype " to lay when developing a new product / brand / movement. Read, save, share and write your review.

about the author

“Unfortunately, we do not choose death for ourselves, but we can meet it with dignity to be remembered as men.”
- film “Gladiator”



Peter Hinchens (Pieter Hintjens) - Belgian developer, writer. He served as CEO and chief software designer at iMatix , a company that produces free software , such as the ZeroMQ library (the library takes care of data buffering, queuing, establishing and recovering connections, etc.), OpenAMQ, Libero , GSL code generator , and the Xitami web service .

• The author of more than 30 protocols and distributed systems.
• Founder of the Edgenet project to create a completely secure, anonymous global P2P network.
• President of the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) association , which fought patent law.
• CEO of Wikidot's own wiki project .
• He was an activist of open standards and the founder of the Digital Standards Organization .
• Peter in 2007 was named one of the 50 most influential people in the field of "Intellectual Property".

• Foreword
  - The wisdom of the crowd
• Chapter 1.
  - Toolkit
• Chapter 2
  - The emotional burnout of volunteers
  - How to capture / protect an open-source project
  - The myth of individual intelligence
  - Counting the collective intelligence of Habr (and any other organization of people)
• Chapter 3
  - ZeroMQ Community
  - Software Architecture Psychology
  - The Importance of Contracts
  - 4 Steps to a Self-Governing Community
• Chapter 4.
  - Protocol for the C4 collaboration
• Chapter 5
  - Design, Development, Innovation
  - Strategies for the success of open source projects
• Chapter 6.
  - Living Systems