Open source projects tend to be remote-first simply because there is no budget for an office.
Why does this seem to work for open source to a greater extent than for tech companies?
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My sense is that the creative conception phase of a project (and subsequent definitional shaping) is most weakened by remote collab. Most open source work is about execution, maintenance, incremental improvement—which can more easily happen remotely.
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The creative conception in OSS often happens solo, or in a small tight-knit group, prior to the apparent “main” lifetime of the project.
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Is that true, or is it that open source projects tend to be CLI-driven...and so what you're creatively collaborating on is text vs images, and so that's easier to work on remotely?
If can identify the active ingredient here, that might help with "remoting" existing cos.
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I think you are close. Its more Cathedral vs Bazaar. I think what Andy is trying to get at is that at first you have a solo/group that later evolves into incrementalism because core OSS gets hard to change w/ more users.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathe
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The creative conception is always happening in small tight-knit groups.