While Community is a concept that intersects with many tech trends and innovations today,

community has long played a role in the modern open source movement.

What can we learn from the evolution of open source communities, and how might that be applied to online

communities and the Creator Economy today.

In this episode from August 2020, author Nadia Asperov, who previously published under the name Nadia Iqbal, comes on the show to discuss

her book, Working in Public, The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software.

Nadia and host Zonal Choxi go through a taxonomy for communities, how

open source has changed over time, which learnings from open source do and

don't apply to new communities, and more.

Hi everyone, welcome to the A6 and Z podcast.

I'm Sonal and I'm super excited to do one of our special book launch episodes

for the new book coming out just this week,

working in public, making and maintenance of open source software by Nadia Iqbal and published by stripe press

The topic actually applies to all kinds of communities and groups coming together,

whether it's an open source project, an R&D initiative, a department and a company, a club or a special interest

group, even a group of friends and family, because it's all about how people come together

to coordinate and collaborate around some shared interest or activity,

whether participatory or not, whether code or content.

And so one theme we also pull the threads on in this episode

is about how the learnings of open source communities do and don't apply

to the passion economy and creator communities as well.

Nadia has long been immersed in studying the health of communities,

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