Recently I had the opportunity to watch a soccer game (football to the majority of the world). This game was one of the most amazing displays of team effort I’ve ever had the…
Olivier Roth, Community Manager at Clinovo, has grown an open source community around the open health platform ClinCapture, an open source Eletronic Data Capture (EDC) system…
The room was packed with almost 30 community managers from around the world. We were attending the Community Leadership Summit in Portland, Oregon and I was leading a session…
Humans have always formed communities. They are necessary for support both physically and, according to psychologists, emotionally as well. Until recently, though, the…
Some people have been working on open source projects for so long, and collaborating as a process and method for getting work done, that it's just second nature and kind of…
Co-authored by Michael DeHaan, Co-founder and CTO of Ansible. It’s likely that many of you have heard about Ansible. For those who haven't, it's an open source software…
We are all international now. I recently took part in a conversation at the TYPO3 Eastern Europe conference in Cluj-Napoca, Romania at which a very interesting proposition was…
In today's open source world, there are a number of very large communities that have tangible incentives for contributing to projects. Commits that make it into the master…
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to another Six Degrees column. As usual, get your feedback into the comment box, and within the spirit of this specific column, I…
Where do the developers in my FOSS community live? For large open source communities where personal contact with developers is impossible, answering this simple question may…
When I talk to college students who are working on their first open source projects, the message I emphasize over and over and (yes, one more time) over again is the…
Community-driven software development is becoming the new path to brand and project success. You would be advised to pay attention to this surging trend: With more than 27…