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Rebekah Wilson: Making Business in Distributed Settings

 
Amsterdam, 13 October 2008: I have known Rebekah since 2001 when we were both attending a Summer University program on performing arts in Amsterdam and decided to go the Hacking at Large, a festival …
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experience, methodology, collective history: Rebekah Wilson by Caroline Nevejan
 
Source Elements is company based in the USA, which is collaborating with a company elsewhere and clients all over the globe. Therefore they mostly work online. Rebekah Wilson is co-founder and …
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Wilson finds that the orchestration of communication with different colleagues and business partners is different in many aspects: in tone of voice, in response time, in how to take minutes, in how …
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Wilson has a distinct behavior of timing in her collaboration with the programmers: confirm when you receive a batch of code, immediately download it and start testing immediately.
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experience, argument, methodology, collective history: Rebekah Wilson by Caroline Nevejan
 
Understanding of the open source ethic that most programmers want to uphold is crucial as technical director. Programmers will make use of the community of programming and use appropriate licenses.
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Wilson consciously creates her identity online. It is important that clients feel they can trust her professionally and the feedback is that the support they offer is highly appreciated. They may …
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To Wilson her life online, including her professional life, is like another world in which she lives as well. It is distinct from her life offline though.
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Full transcript including film fragments you find at: http://www.systemsdesign.tbm.tudelft.nl/witness Hereunder the transcript in text.
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