The Open Directory Project (big web directory) The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors. The web continues to grow at staggering rates. Automated search engines are increasingly unable to turn up useful results to search queries. The small paid editorial staffs at commercial directory sites can't keep up with submissions, and the quality and comprehensiveness of their directories has suffered. Link rot is setting in and they can't keep pace with the growth of the Internet. Instead of fighting the explosive growth of the Internet, the Open Directory provides the means for the Internet to organize itself. As the Internet grows, so do the number of net-citizens. Help build the most comprehensive human-reviewed directory of the web communitydirectoryenginesearchweb in Computing > World Wide Web > Reference siteswith bigdirectoryglobalhugeinternetreferencesitewebwideworld
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The Boston Consulting Group/OSTG Hacker Survey Who are the hackers that create all this great free software? How much time do they spend? Why do they do it? Where are they from? Do they think its sustainable? In order to better understand the nature of this dynamic community and provide lessons to the business world about innovation, Surveyed hackers participating on software projects on SourceForge.net, the world's largest collaborative software development Web site for the Open Source community and the Linux kernel mailing list. A media, services and e-commerce network that provides and promotes Open Source software downloads, development, discussion and news. developmentdownloadsfreshmeatitmjjournallnuxmanagersopenslashdotsourcesourceforgethinkgeek in Computing > Softwarewith communitiescommunitycommunity-basedforgeglobalglobalisationinternetonlineopensourcesourceforge.netsurveyuserusers Note: • Participants note extremely high levels of creativity in their projects. • Defeating proprietary software companies is not a major motivator. • Truly global in composition with respondents coming from 35 countries. • Most participants dedicated at least 10 hours per week in their shared programmin ...moreg efforts • Contrary to popular belief about hackers, the open source community is mostly comprised of highly skilled IT professionals who have on average over 10 years of programming experience