As I see it, that's still far away from the kind of "open source" development model I'm thinking about. Most obviously, no open source project has mandatory da

As I see it, that's still far away from the kind of "open source" development model I'm thinking about. Most obviously, no open source project has mandatory daily status meetings! And usually, tasks are larger. They often have chat rooms, but they're not really used for synchronizing work, more for idle socializing and occasional discussions. Daily coordination in the "scrum" fashion, I think, is still under the threshold where work tends to become "tightly coupled" and synchronous. I have more thoughts about how I think this can discourage longer-term projects... but, another time... By the way, I think these are just two different models, with their own flaws and benefits, and it's interesting to think about whether they could be combined in some novel way.