This talk was the keynote talk at the EBU's Seminar on Open Source Oct 1st, 2nd 2007. http://www.ebu.ch/en/technical/opensource/ The video referenced is IBM's "Prodigy" advert, which can be found here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=q5Kp1Q39VwI

1. The Selfish Programmer EBU Open Source Workshop Michael Sparks Senior Research Engineer BBC Research http://kamaelia.sourceforge.net/

2. Care Open source software is created when someone cares about a problem enough to do something about it. Michael Sparks, http://kamaelia.sf.net/

3. Share Open source is created when someone shares their solution to a problem in a way that allows others to solve more problems. Michael Sparks, http://kamaelia.sf.net/

4. Give By giving back code patches you gain better code. By giving back documentation you get better software. Michael Sparks, http://kamaelia.sf.net/

5. Selfish We want to solve the problem easily We want to lighten the load, for all We give and in turn receive Michael Sparks, http://kamaelia.sf.net/

6. Teach We're teaching the software to be more useful. It stays adaptable to us, adaptable by us. Software parts, not upgrades Michael Sparks, http://kamaelia.sf.net/

7. (video) Michael Sparks, http://kamaelia.sf.net/

8. Be Selfish Take the code, see if it works for you, what have you got to lose? Michael Sparks, http://kamaelia.sf.net/