Egoboo
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Egoboo er en sjargong for det å nyte å motta offentlig annerkjennelse for frivillig arbeid.
Begrepet har sin opprinnelse i science fiction-miljøet, orginalt bare brukt for å beskrive «ego-økningen» noen fikk ved å se navnet på trykk.
As a reliable way for someone to get their name in print was to do something worth mentioning, it became caught up with the idea of voluntary community participation. As a result of this, in later years, the term grew to mean something akin to an ephemeral currency - "I got a lot of egoboo for editing that newsletter".
The term later spread into the open source programming movement, where the concept of non-monetary reward from community response is a key motive for many of the participants.
As a result of its prevalence in this context, it is often attributed to Eric S. Raymond. However, it has been in use in science fiction fandom since the 1950s, being referenced in the 1959 collection of fandom-related jargon Fancyclopedia II [1]. It did not, however, occur in the 1944 predecessor to that work, Fancyclopedia I [2], suggesting the term came into common use sometime in the intervening years. The first print citation available electronically is Bob Tucker's 1954 Neo-Fan's Guide, where it is spelled "ego-boo" and a derivation is given from "ego-boosting activity"; later usage dropped the hyphen and blended the two words, a common feature of fannish jargon.
Den tidligste online-siteringen registrert er en referanse til begrepet brukt i 1982 for å beskrive InConJunction, en science fiction-messe i Indiana (USA) [3].
Et open source-spill har også tittelen Egoboo [4].
[rediger] Referanser
- ^ Fancyclopedia II – index page
- ^ Fancyclopedia I – #E
- ^ Google Grups – net.sf-lovers>INCONJUNCTION II: AN SF CONVENTION
- ^ egoboo
