Hi!
Some links I came across today and thought people here might enjoy, to
kick-start the conversation:
http://lwn.net/Articles/379423/rss - Luis Villa's post from Planet on
why mailing lists are like parties is now on LWN.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=problem-solved-tic-tac-toe…
"In a blog post in January 2009, Gowers asked whether spontaneous online
collaborations could crack hard mathematical problems—and if they could
do so in the open, laying the creative process out for the world to see."
--Mel