Sofware Engineers and the Networked Economy

Google has an open-source program mainly to support young geeks and tie into open source. In that program, Googles is functioning as a university as it creates a new kind of distributed lab. Chris DiBona, open-source program manager, has a great quote on the importance for software engineers to properly apply the tools of the networked economy (message boards, phone, VoIP, email, instant messaging, video conferencing, and blogging):

“Developers should get used to the idea of globally distributed work groups all over the place, all over the time zones. It’s the future of software development.”

Via Google and the networked economy on ballpark.