This cartoon humorously illustrates the challenges of managing open-source projects. It depicts a conversation between two people, where one realizes that a questionable design—featuring a rubber duck—has been uploaded to an open-source sensor project. The comic highlights the potential for unexpected contributions and the need for better moderation in open collaborative environments.
Creation date
2015-05-27AltText
A person questions another about an open-source project after seeing a rubber duck in the design.Transcript
Person 1: Is that your open source sensor project?
Person 2: Yep, new design was posted last night
Person 1: Umm is that a rubber duck?
Person 2: Yeah, either this is brilliant or I need to start putting some kind of filter on the public upload feature
Additional text: Open source projects may require some management
