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Chris Grams is the Head of Marketing at Tidelift and author of The Ad-Free Brand: Secrets to Building Successful Brands in a Digital World.
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Chris Grams
Chris Grams is the Head of Marketing at Tidelift and author of The Ad-Free Brand: Secrets to Building Successful Brands in a Digital World.
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I particularly like your second paragraph... perhaps what an open source project might need to get to great design is a "Benevolent (Design) Dictator for Life"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_Dictator_For_Life
This person would have to stay involved in the project for a long period of time, would have to do things the open source way, but at the end of the day was a dictator... albeit a benevolent one:)
This is Apple's advantage, they have the long term vision and long term experience of Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive as benevolent co-dictators...
Anyone know of an examples of open source projects that have Benevolent Design Dictators?
Hi Robyn-- thanks for the note! I'd be very interested in doing a case study on how Fedora develops the brand vision/story using an open process. I'll shoot you an email and we can talk more about it!