ExtremeOpenBusiness
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In ExtremeOpenBusiness a UserStory is given by making all UserInteractions? with the real market transparent, inspired by DaveBrin?s TheTransparentSociety. By transparently collaborating with OpenSource programmers (this is much more than "only" restricting programming to piecewise open releases of software sources to the public), the programmers get their real time-input from the users: e.g. EOB users, who practise SocialDomaining?, by exposing their domain portfolios, as public Google Spreadsheets or EditGrid? Spreadsheets, via wiki pages. The users describe their needs on these wiki pages, e.g. we want a pay button in each row, that lets pop up a dialogue window, which initiates a transaction of domains and funds.
  • the Buyer inputs the addresses of their open domain portefolio and their e.g. paypal account.
  • a funds transfer is initiated from buyer to seller
  • the source and target domain portefolios are adapted accordingly
  • DomainRegistrarTransfer? is initiated
In a human dialogue the wants are refined until everything is crystal clear to the programmers. In this open process now some users want e.g. to have attached to the spreadsheet a MakeOffersList?, which maybe for XP-programmers a matter of minutes to code this additional feature. Now some users want to pose this list into a domaining forum, say NamePros?, where there is an established community, who trade domains on an internal currency. As all these user-actions are already ocurring real-world transactions, these transactions, tell the story. These sketchy remarks can be refined in the public. The author leaves a backup of his conceptual input on the following WikiTrailmark? (WorkInProgress). -- FridemarPache
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This page contains a lot of insights that are inherited by general distributed development of any objects or processes, so I DiiGo this page and add it to the WikiTrail ExtremeOpenBusiness for further refinement. -- FridemarPache
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xob relevant uote:

However, the OpenSource programmer
  • is not tied to a particular employer, so can program what makes their heart sing.
  • is free to offer consulting (and special client customizing) services on the open market, like e.g. on the OpenMarket? at SourceForge, where s/he will be in a unique position.
  • is free to buy domain-names that represent their programming ideas, which they develop openly in the community thus getting more exposure, than by million dollar marketing campaigns, with the consequence, to sell/rent/lease these domains for more profit, than they would earn as employees. As a real example, you can start to program StocksAtHome?, DomainsAtHome? in analogy to SetiAtHome just right now. Contact here or via the open WikiTrail 's: ExtremeOpenBusiness or the (to be created) ExtremeOpenProgramming. -- FridemarPache
Other Quotes to be explored:

We must check those links to see if the concepts and people behind it are amenable to xob.

If yes, add it to this WikiTrail xob.

-- fridemar
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Relevant Quotes to be explored:

FreeSoftware is related to, but not the same as, OpenSource software. In the words of RichardStallman:

FreeSoftwareMovement [...] is concerned not only with practical benefits but with a social and ethical issue: whether to encourage people to cooperate with their neighbors, or prohibit cooperation. The FreeSoftwareMovement raises issues of freedom, community, principle, and ethics, which the OpenSource Movement studiously avoids.

-- RichardStallman in a May 2000 SlashDot interview [http://slashdot.org/interviews/00/05/01/1052216.shtml]
So FreeSoftware may be even more important to xob, xop than Wiki:OpenSource
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May be, that  these freedom loving people may even more appreciate xob/p.

Quote:
Over the past few months the SourceForge development facility, which hosts a large number of Free Software projects, has changed its policies. Features for exporting a project from SourceForge have been removed. The implementation used to be exclusively Free Software but is now based on non-free software. Finally, VA Linux[1] has become rather underhand in their attempts to grasp exclusive control of contributors' work.
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They need help.
But I can't see a Wiki to collaborate.
Perhaps somebody knows one, and leaves a comment or a mark with a link in this xob trail
. Or even an om (OpenMail) in the Aboutus.org wiki,
linked to their homepage.
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Extreme Open Business

This page is currently developed on its TwinPage at MeatballWiki. As in this wiki (due to its history) there are probably a lot of XP savvy people, they are invited to join the OpenProcess at Meatball. ExtremeOpenBusiness is a community process, where not only all involved resources, but also the business processes are made open and transparent, involving all actors, constantly embracing change, always showing results from the start on. Think of it as an interactive Reality TV show, with an OpenInvitationToParticipate. The principles of ExtremeOpenBusiness are inspired by ExtremeProgramming, actually they are a generalization of XP (these claims are elaborated on the go by starting with some initial tests). -- FridemarPache BiLinks: <-> http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?ExtremeOpenBusiness (for tempory twinning the involved pages)

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