bacon 2014 - what is the collective noun for developers?
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An unkindness of ravens, a pride of lions: collective nouns reveal what human emotions and behaviours we project on the animals around us. In this talk, we will wonder at murmurations of starlings, and study the science behind the group patterns and flocking behaviours in the animal kingdom. After an analysis of the patterns of the software development community's commits to open source projects and online activity, we will draw parallels with the group behaviours seen in the wild and attempt to find some collective nouns that could apply to us. What can we learn from animal group patterns that could help us improve our collective intelligence and idea sharing systems? Website: http://camillebaldock.co.uk Twitter: @camille_TRANSCRIPT
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What is the collective noun for developers?
Camille Baldock, @camille_
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Collective nouns are amazing
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hummingbirds
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Bouquet hummingbirds
of
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flamingoes
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Flamboyance flamingoes
of
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crows
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Murder crows
of
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starlings
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Murmuration starlings
of
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______ of developers
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array of developers
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scrum of developers
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bikeshed of developers
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Phil Karlton
Only 2 hard things in computer science: cache invalidation
and naming things
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Phil Karlton
Only 2 hard things in computer science: cache invalidation
and naming things
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hanging out in libraries
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maths!
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humans are complicated
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complex vs
complicated
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developers’ activity
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developers in the wild
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movement
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They always travel in groups of five, these programmers
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information transfer growing making decisions
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information transfer
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honey bees
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wasps
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social network analysis
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200 most popular repositories !
All pull request and issue comments, who interacted with who
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Most senior contributors interact less with newcomers than “mid-level” contributors
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nest destruction bike colony
of wasps
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growing
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positive feedback
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200 most popular repositories !
All comments, measure positivity
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great, awesome, thanks !
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More feedback !
More growing
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More positive feedback !
Even more growing
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making decisions
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200 most popular repositories !
200 repositories with most collaborators
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200 most popular repositories !
people involved in each change
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Condorcet many wrongs
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More collaborators?
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More collaboration per change!
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swarm intrusion of cockroaches
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What are animals doing better than us?
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groupthink
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collect independently !
come back to group
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The organisation should set up several independent
groups, working on the same problem.
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Leaders should absent themselves from many of the
group meetings to avoid excessively influencing the
outcome.
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anternet
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nest destruction bike colony
of wasps
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swarm intrusion of cockroaches
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@camille_ your,votes,here
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@camille_ superbikeshed,swarm
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@camille_ superbikeshed,swarm
What is the collective noun for developers?