5-Legged Dogs

OSE Culture

OSE is building a culture of open source super-cooperators. This applies to individuals and organizations. In addition to open source-collaborative. Note that open source is typically not collaborative - the typical case is a hacker going off into a corner and then emerging some time later with a semi-finished product, at which point it becomes more collaborative. OSE promotes publishing earlier than this, to make true the 'publish early and often' credo.

Calculation

The chance of finding a 5 legged dog - a person who is a supercooperator-builder-teacher-open source-entrepreneur - is just about exactly 1 in a million, based on available statistics. This is just a first order approximation. This figure is derived by multiplying the 5 percentages below.

Statistics

• Entreprenuerial - 14% [1].
• Open Source - 2.5% [2] work in software, the best approximation of number that understands open source
• Teachers - 2% [3]
• Collaborative - 14% (based on statistic 2 at [4])
• Builders - (blue collar types) - 14% [5]