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.
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…
So you decided to use metrics to track your free, open source software (FOSS) community. Now comes the big question: Which metrics should I be tracking? To answer this…
Back in 2013, some contributors to the Fedora project were puzzled. They'd been issued digital badges like Paranoid Panda, Curious Penguin, and Master Editor but weren't sure…
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…
The new Director of Community at GitHub, Jono Bacon, delivered a keynote at All Things Open this year titled: The new era of community. His talk was largely a call action to…
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…
