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In 1972 F. P. Brooks[1] illustrated the similarities between software development and a fantastic creature: the werewolf. In different mythologies, a werewolf under the moonlight was able to be as soon familiar as terrible. But the software may be worse: it is able to be terrible from the beginning. It is able to be an every time weresoft. Just in that moment Brooks started to looking for a silver bullet for software development. Trying to help to the weresoft’s hunters, he split the problem in essential complexity and accidental complexity of the software. The goal was to solve the essential complexity, i.e. the increasing complexity itself, the conformity, the changeability and the invisibility of the software.

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Last April some Morfeo’s members presented the article “The Morfeo Open Source Community: Building Technologies of the Future Web through Open Innovation” at World Wide Web Conference 2009.

In that article was included a comparative analysis about the collaborative infrastructure provided by the Morfeo Community and how this framework can help to foster the collective innovation. The Morfeo framework was comparated with an Enterprise 2.o model, the SLATES[1] model, and with a collective learning model, the  Bloom’s model[2] of “collective learning machine” and finally with the Surowiecki’s model[3] of collective intelligence.

The analysis produced an interesting figure where several issues of collective learning, intelligence and enterprises features are mapping with the collaborative tools and facilities provides by Morfeo Framework.

It seems very interesting to analyze the collaborative facilities under a formal approach. These methods provide a very useful way to improve the services that a community like Morfeo provides to its members.

However, if we want to go on developing new strategies based on OSS for the enterprises new models of collaboration and their own collaboration tools have to be envisioned and to do this we will need you comments and feedback.

Are you ready?

[1]A. P. McAfee. Enterprise 2.0: The dawn of emergent collaboration. MIT Sloan Management Review, 47(3):21–28, 2006.

[2]H. Bloom. Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2000. pp 42-44.

[3]J. Surowiecki. The Wisdom of Crowds. Anchor, August 2005. pp 18-19 and chapters 2-4.