Answer from Gary for Question 3

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Gary regards himself/herself as:

3.

What work practices and culture should be promoted?

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3.1 Sense of responsibility

3.2 Measurement of quality of code

3.3 Prioritization of new features

3.4 Reinforcing explicit development roles

3.5 Reuse of existing source code

3.6 Do not focus on the volume of software created, but usefulness

3.7 Emphasis on history, reuse old resources

3.8 Computer science/software engineering knowledge

3.9 Creating a public library atomsphere, giving users as much freedom as possible and staying out of the users' way

3.10 Documentation of source code and standards in writing style

3.11 Distributed style of development and decentralised decision-making

3.12 Welcome help from less skilled developers and understand their potential to become high skilled developers

3.13 Tolerance, respect and patience

3.14 Awareness of different culture and language background

3.15 Awareness of different technology background

3.16 Listening to others

3.17 Flexibility towards volunteers

3.18 The value of heterogeneity, differences as assets

3.19 Nothing should be 'promoted'.

3.20 Openness in attitude, no hidden agenda

3.21 Openness in procedures and policies

3.22 Cooperation and collaboration, encourage involvement of developers to share the load of development

3.23 Firmness

3.24 Keeping promises

3.25 Avoid force

3.26 Critique for the sake of the task

3.27 Jane Jacob's systems of survival's commercial moral syndrome

3.28 Using centralised repository for source code

3.29 To include automated building and testing facilities in releases

3.30 Easy to use, high usability

3.31 Flexibility in tools for rapid project administration

3.32 A system to attribute credit

3.33 Standards in software design

3.34 The practices of Extreme Programming

3.35 Clarity, simpleness of code

3.36 Standards coding style

3.37 Fun and good spirit and hope

3.38 Frequent submissions of contributions

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