Rebecca Fernandez wrote this article, “Build an authentic, valuable online community“. In the comments Jason Hibbets pointed out that PJ at Groklaw had picked up Rebecca’s request for help in filling out the empty parts of The Open Source Way dealing with healthy community interaction, especially trolls and other poisonous people. Thus we got “What […]
Category Archives: Community
Death to the postmortem, long live …
18-May-10Every release cycle in Fedora I see folks use the term postmortem to refer to discussions after the release that focus on analysing what happened during the release, with a focus on fixing mistakes and repeating successes. This is a neologism borrowed from domains such as business. Humans are wordy people, and the effects of […]
In the vein of other great “how to help in FOSS projects” emails, presentations, and so forth, the Fedora developer list saw another one from Richard ‘hughsie’ Hughes, titled “Sending a sensible email“. It begins: There appears to be a trend on this list where a random user just posts an inflammatory email with “ACME […]
Six slides about The Open Source Way
05-May-10After a colleague asked me for a few slides about the handbook The Open Source Way: Creating and nurturing communities of contributors, I realized I needed to put together a shorter presentation (with notes!) that could be reused. As it so happens, I also need some slides for an upcoming online seminar, Open Your World […]
Finally! This coming 05 to 09 July we are hosting Professors’ Open Source Summer Experience (POSSE) in Mountain View. And I get to participate as a full instructor in this coolest of programs to come out of the Red Hat community leadership team in the last year. If you are in California this July and […]
Diversity check
25-Mar-10Please remove your house colors for a moment and let go of your pre-judgement about the word diversity. A diversity check is the moment when you look something over you have done, such as a presentation/talk, documentation, writing a blog post or an email, where you must think, “Did I just write this for people […]
As soon as I decided to write an Ada Lovelace Day tribute to a woman in computing, I almost immediately stumbled across Lana Brindley’s post on computer engineer Barbie. It was a nice serendipity. This week Lana’s posts on technical writing were both inspiring and directly helpful in terms of supplying content to a textbook […]
Fedora Summer Coding continues
18-Mar-10Fedora Project and JBoss.org were not accepted by Google as an umbrella mentoring organization for their Summer of Code this year. We’ve been involved since the beginning with many successes. This year we decided to embrace the umbrella organization that Google stitched together from separate JBoss.org and Fedora Project applications a few years ago and […]
New skin, new list
26-Feb-10Put up a new look for The Open Source Way tonight. Graphic came from Red Hat Design and I like it. Figured I would just put it up and try it on for size; see what opinions arise. Also another milestone tonight, I broke open the new mailing list and sent some random messages. I […]
This past Saturday I gave my first keynote at the eighth Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE 8x), and I was pretty pleased with the results. Informal survey says I crushed it, but you can take a look yourself below. (Part 1 and Part 2) Overall, the keynote went great. No real glitches and I survived […]