Community management

Open source community analysis with actionable insights

cdolfi — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Open source community analysis with actionable insights cdolfi Wed, 04/05/2023 - 03:00

Project Aspen plans to enable quantitative open source community health analysis for all.

Organizations are increasingly adopting open source software development models and open source aspects of organizational culture. As a result, interest in how open source…

How to encourage positive online communication in your open source community

ultimike — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 07:00:00 +0000

How to encourage positive online communication in your open source community ultimike Thu, 03/30/2023 - 03:00

The Drupal community uses nudges to keep conversations productive and inclusive.

Threaded online conversations are a relatively new form of communication that can improve knowledge transfer and availability, but they can also stray from the original intent…

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Why your open source project needs a content strategy

emilyo — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Why your open source project needs a content strategy emilyo Wed, 03/22/2023 - 03:00

Explore the benefits of technical content strategy and how having one can improve the user and contributor experience of your open source community projects.

If you search for content strategy in your favorite search engine, I bet that you find that it is a term more strongly associated with marketing content than with technical…

Contribute to open source without code

Debra Chen — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 08:00:00 +0000

Contribute to open source without code Debra Chen Thu, 03/09/2023 - 03:00

If you want to become a committer through non-code contributions or don't have time to make a code contribution, then the first step is to join the community.

An open source "community" means different things to different people. I think of open source a little like "falling in love" because it is about people and relationships…

10 ways Wikimedia does developer advocacy

srish_aka_tux — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 08:00:00 +0000

10 ways Wikimedia does developer advocacy srish_aka_tux Tue, 03/07/2023 - 03:00

It's important to grow and nurture your open source community. Find out how Wikimedia does it.

In a previous article, I wrote about Wikipedia’s rich history as a repository of open knowledge. Supporting Wikipedia as a platform ensures that the information it contains is…

What does ChatGPT mean for the open source community?

sethkenlon — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 08:00:00 +0000

What does ChatGPT mean for the open source community? sethkenlon Sat, 02/18/2023 - 03:00

The open source community thrives on the genuine interest in sharing. That's something ChatGPT cannot emulate.

Machine learning and "artificial intelligence" is on a lot of people's minds right now, largely because of ChatGPT. With its widely-available public demonstration, the not-so…

A guide to SLEs and SLAs for open source projects

quaid — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 08:00:00 +0000

A guide to SLEs and SLAs for open source projects quaid Thu, 02/16/2023 - 03:00

Setting Service Level Expectations can help a project function successfully when there's no binding contract.

The term Service Level Agreement (SLA) is a familiar one, particularly in the context of a cloud or managed service on the web. An SLA refers to the contractual obligations a…

A 10-step guide for a successful hackathon

Tiffany Long — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 08:00:00 +0000

A 10-step guide for a successful hackathon Tiffany Long Mon, 02/13/2023 - 03:00

Follow this blueprint for planning, hosting, and managing a successful hackathon.

Hackathons are easy. How much thought do you need to put into them anyway? Just set a date, and people will show up. Well, that is not quite true! While you may get lucky with…

How upstream contributions power scientific research

cdelia — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 08:00:00 +0000

How upstream contributions power scientific research cdelia Fri, 02/03/2023 - 03:00

Just as with software development, research under Horizon Europe promotes the adoption of sharing research outputs as early and widely as possible to citizen science…

Horizon Europe emphasizes open science and open source technology. The program evolved from Horizon 2020, which provided financial support for research projects that promoted…

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Fork our open source onboarding program

stackedsax — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 08:00:00 +0000

Fork our open source onboarding program stackedsax Thu, 01/12/2023 - 03:00

The open source software team at G-Research is helping establish an easier on-ramp for getting started in open source.

Getting started as a contributor to an open source project shouldn't feel like getting bad customer service: "Please hold while we connect you with the first available…

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