hacker goals
learn skills/concepts
educate about and demonstrate new solutions and weaknesses in current solutions

How hacker "groups" accomplish these goals
conferences/meetings (CCC/2600/PLA/CDC)
collective workspaces (Half bakery/walnut factory)
Houses/squats (HHH/puscii)

Short description of 2600
Public space
No dues
No speaker
Present projects
Conference funded by magazine and entrance fee

vs. CCC
Private space
dues
speaker
perform projects funded by regional group
Conference funded by dues and entrance fee

Why this talk

More efficient teaching
techniques for accomplishing ad-hoc management, keeping creative people focused

traditional companies/corporations
vs. open source groups/enthusiast clubs


people come to meetings wanting to teach or learn
Transmission learning
vs. collective learning

Discovery
in dialogue, potential always for new ideas, exploration of old ideas


organized groups (corporate/schools)
ad hoc groups (CTF/open source developers/enthusiasts)


I)highly organized group
A) Description
1) Hierarchy
2) Reporting
3) Decision making
B) Problems
1) bristle at uneducated criticism
2) offer solutions without the opportunity to impliment
3) without the opportunity to apply ideas, slow stagnation

II)T
A) Description
1) Teams of peers
2) Same field
3) Roles
B) Problems
1) if the other team members dont understand an idea, it wont be clear
how pursuing it would be beneficial
2) Only people experienced in a subject can make rational decisions
concerning courses of action in that subject
3) Concensus on goals
4) teams reports as one entity to management

III)The resultant experience
 A) Description
1) Teams and individuals grouped within the hierarchy from one strata
2) Decisions come from above
3) Reports rise
B) Problems
1) No new ideas due to matched skills, but matched skills cause needless
disagreement to prove ability
2) Only the least significant decisions are made by those best suited to
make them
3) Perceived lack of performance within social structures-despite
individual performance-will result in social friction and potential managerial reprimand

transmission learning
(lectures/classrooms)
1 teacher, multiple students
the teacher is the only person required to understand the topic
the students only need knowledge of the language and lingo related to the topic
collective learning
(projects/workshops)
the more people educated in the topic the better the system works
potential for discussion, new discovery

IV)Parallel problem solving (challenge)
A) Description
1) Break strata and share solutions from small groups
2) Make task achievable - achievable tasks affect participants and
empower individuals in a controllable way
3) Diverse task - Integrate organizational goals to create a complex
goal requiring multiple skills
B) Problems
1) Heavy resource cost
2) Perceived as distracting from core business

V)Constructive learning (educate)
A) Description
1) History
2) OM, Model UN
3) Comparison to transmission learning
4) Multiple levels - cross training
B) Problems
1) Heavy resource cost
2) Distracting (challenges ideally do not relate to business objectives
directly so as to diversify knowledge-engineers already know
engineering)


Organizations of individuals(Similarly interested individuals who form
an organization with goals similar to its members)

I)Emergent Management
II)Need for acceptance
III)the resultant experience
IV)Leadership
V) Social friction

Deadlines kill the reforms
Lack of funding limits project to management, not involving the more
populous, expert strata