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Ben Cotton is a meteorologist by training, but weather makes a great hobby. Ben works as the Fedora Program Manager at Red Hat. He is the author of Program Management for Open Source Projects. Find him on Twitter (@FunnelFiasco) or at FunnelFiasco.com.
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Laura, thanks for your comment. I'm inclined to think that a difference exists between the developer community and the population at large. Of course, that's completely conjecture, which is why a real study would be useful. I agree that merely talking about this openly is a vitally important thing to do.
You bring up a great point that family drives understanding of the open organization and not the other way around. I wonder how many companies that claim to think of employees as family actually treat them like family in this regard. I suspect it's very few.