A retrospective look at PD projects
Communications of the ACM - Special issue Participatory Design
Collaboration with Lean Media: how open-source software succeeds
CSCW '00 Proceedings of the 2000 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
Design at Work: Cooperative Design of Computer Systems
Design at Work: Cooperative Design of Computer Systems
Participatory Design at a Radio Station
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Sustainable interaction design: invention & disposal, renewal & reuse
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Collaboration on Social Network Sites: Amateurs, Professionals and Celebrities
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
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We address the issue of sustainability of practice, which we regard as crucial for the sustainability of the community at large. In the absence of material reward, sustaining a specialized activity such as programming is not trivial especially when members move often in and out of the community. Our case is the group of voluntary, amateur student programmers from a European-wide student organization. We present this setting as an Amateur Community and as a Community of Practice, and show how such framing helps in understanding sustainability of practice. Although being totally voluntary and managing a large intranet, the group has been thriving for six years. To explain such high practice sustainability we examine the role of the technology framework used by the group during this time. We then propose a more general framework for understanding practice sustainability in the context of amateur communities of practice.