The Cathedral and the Bazaar Series

• The "Cathedral and the Bazaar" series consists of three main documents and a few lesser ones:
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar
• Homesteading the Noosphere
• The Magic Cauldron
• This lecture will give an overview of it. (which does not release one from the need to read it.)

• 1. Who is Eric S. Raymond
• 2. The Cathedral and the Bazaar
  • 2.1. Two Ways of Managing a Project
  • 2.2. How to start a Bazaar-style Project
  • 2.3. The Users and how to Treat them
  • 2.4. Release Early, Release Often
  • 2.5. Getting Ideas from Users
  • 2.6. Fetchmail Becomes a Category Killer
  • 2.7. Overcoming Brooks' Law
  • 2.8. Final Notes about CatB
• 3. Homesteading the Noosphere
  • 3.1. The Hacker Community as a Gift Culture
  • 3.2. The Lack of Project Niches
  • 3.3. The Lockean Property Theory
  • 3.4. Application to Projects
  • 3.5. Ego-lessness in the Hackers Community
  • 3.6. Rewards and Motivation
• 4. The Magic Cauldron
  • 4.1. The Magic of the Open-Source World
  • 4.2. Use Value and Sale Value
  • 4.3. The Inverse Commons Model
  • 4.4. Case Studies
    • 4.4.1. Apache : Cost Sharing
    • 4.4.2. Zope : Give Away a Recipe, Open a Restaurant
    • 4.4.3. Doom : Becoming Open-Source at the Right Time
  • 4.5. Business and Open-Source

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