Ben Cotton

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Ben Cotton is a meteorologist by training, but weather makes a great hobby. Ben works as the Fedora Program Manager at Red Hat. He is the author of Program Management for Open Source Projects. Find him on Twitter (@FunnelFiasco) or at FunnelFiasco.com.

Open Sourcerer People's Choice Award Moderator's Choice Award 2017 Python SysAdmin Community Manager Creative Commons Developer Fedora Contributor Club Author Comment Gardener Cloud Linux Open science Open Organization Ambassador

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Creative Commons: 1.2 billion strong and growing

I'm not sure I agree with the "are not interesting" part of your comment. In my view (and I know that it's not a universal opinion), a non-free CC license is still better than the default "all rights reserved". Comparing to previous years, thought, it does look like the free culture licenses are gaining ground. I hope that trend continues.

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How to make branding decisions in an open community

Great article, Chad! The most successful approach I've seen is to develop a plan in a small circle and then release it to the community for refinement before adoption. This still allows the community to be involved, but it helps cut down on the bikeshedding compared to starting from an empty page.