Motivation to Join Peer Production Communities

Graphic summarizing 4 types of motivations to join hackerspaces, but applicable more generally.

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More elaborate french-language infographic at http://owni.eu/2011/08/11/infographic-draw-me-a-hacker/

Discussion

Jarkko Moilanen:

"In brief: altruism, community commitment, meeting other hackers in real world and having fun seem to be the most important factors of motivation. Some of the results seem to confirm my motivation model described with last year’s survey results. Compared to motivation models created in/by Open source research, peer production communities have strong ‘social motivation factor’. Below is the model about which you can read more from this blog post here. Motivation model

Peer production communities have high interest towards meeting other hacker-minded people in real life (see table 3 and figure 6). Most communities aim to have physical space to function as community center. They are also known to arrange a lot of real life activities which are often related to learning, education and of course having fun. Having fun is one of the most important motivation factor (see table 3) and having fun is fundamental part of social life. Without having fun (while doing things), there would not be any social activities." (http://blog.ossoil.com/2011/07/10/peer-production-communities-survey-2011/)