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.
My first session at OSCON this year was hosted by Jono Bacon on community management. We've seen a remarkable growth in community all over the world—people are getting…
Welcome folks, to my latest Six Degrees column! Now, I wanted to mix it up a little bit for this one. In previous columns, I have written pieces about trends and patterns in…
Stormy Peters and Avni Khatri will present Grow an organization by planting volunteers at OSCON 2015. Peters is the vice president of technical evangelism at the Cloud Foundry…
One of the great things about open source is its reach beyond just the software we use. Open source isn’t just about taking principled stands, it's about making things better…
Randi Harper has been a FreeBSD src committer, a DevOps engineer, and a FLOSS Weekly co-host. Recently, she's taken on a new role: target of sustained harassment. Randi met…
You know the scene. The one In Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The book's plucky hero learns that his Aunt Polly wants him to spend his day off whitewashing the…
