Teemu Mikkonen

Experiences of Wiki use in Finnish companies

The objective of our study was two-fold. The first and most important objective was to gather experiences on the use of wiki software in Finnish companies. The second objective was to study the frequency of the use of wikis among Finlands 50 biggest companies. Twenty answers on wiki use experiences were received, the responses were divided fairly evenly into different sized companies which operate within different branches. The following questions were surveyed: reasons for the introduction of wikis, purposes of use, motivation methods, introduction processes, present purposes of use, integration of wiki applications to other operating systems, experienced problems and advantages, and tailoring of wiki applications.

Open source hardware through volunteer community: a case study of eCars -- now!

The development model of Open Source Software (OSS) has been widely recognized as resilient and productive. Consequently, high hopes have been placed on projects that try to adapt the OSS model into material production, in projects that can be called Open Source Hardware (OSH). While OSS development has received increasing scholarly attention, the research on OSH is still in its early stages. Here, based on a survey done in 2010, we describe the demographic and motivational structure of one OSH community and compare it to OSS communities. The community analysis will be accompanied with a short discussion of what we see as bottlenecks in OSH development, i.e., features that may disable some of the beneficial dynamics of OSS development, and consequently merit further study.