The success of an open source project is strongly tied to the community that supports and contributes to it. Our community management articles explore common problems, solutions, and tactics to create vital, productive open source communities.
In The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Eric S. Raymond makes the case that "with enough eyes, all bugs are shallow." It's a good sentiment, but as a new project spins up, getting…
One of the many great keynotes given at the Community Leadership Summit ( CLS) this year was by Rod Martin of Mautic, creator of marketing automation software. Rod spoke to us…
For the past few years the Community Leadership Summit ( CLS) has taken place the weekend before OSCON. I've never had the opportunity to attend before, but this year OSCON…
People are pretty incredible. The open source community is a great example of this: hundreds and thousands of people passionate about building new things, collaborating…
Dear Safia, I work in a research laboratory facility and I've developed some open source tools to interact with research equipment. After doing some Googling, I discovered…
What does the science of happiness have to do with OpenStack? As it turns out, a lot. An international community of contributors works on OpenStack, so the overall health of…
