edunham is inspired by a childhood dream of replacing humans with shell scripts, and has found that Linux systems administration is the best career field for realizing that goal. Hobbies include travel, gardening, drive-by patches to obscure open source projects, and filng issues against public repositories that lack licensing information.

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Human Hacking

Are you trying to herd cats as a project leader, or simply wondering how to evaluate a project's culture from the outside before getting involved? This talk explains some basic models of human motivation and behavior and include examples of applying them in the world of open­source software. As engineers, we use simple heuristics and algorithms for solving computer problems every day, although we rarely use those models to understand human interaction.

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