David Nalley

220 points

South Carolina

David Nalley is an open source software contributor. He is currently largely contributing to the Fedora Project, and is or has worked in Ambassadors, marketing, Docs, infrastructure, packaging, and is currently serving a term as a member of the Fedora Board.
He currently is employed by Citrix, née Cloud.com, as the community manager for the CloudStack project, leaving behind a decade of being employed as a systems administrator.

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Governance, control, and how to actually influence an open source project

A lot of groups fret about the governance and control of open source projects. Others tout their open, diversified, wide-ranging, and independent foundations as making them…

Avoiding the pitfalls of open education

Experiential learning using open source is fraught with opportunities for disaster. Open source is unfamiliar ground for professors. Not the software, which is well-known at…

Open source is more than throwing code

Open source has achieved a bit of popularity in the tech world, and has even become a bit mainstream . I sadly think this means that many have and will continue to miss the…

Preparing for my first open source conference

Event review: POSSCON matures

POSSCON, now in its third fourth year has both grown and matured. The Columbia, SC conference pulls in a number of great speakers, this year including Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier…

Two different business organization charts

Leadership in open source communities

Leadership in most organizations is top-down. The CEO tells the VP, who tells the director, who tells the manager, who instructs his employee to do work. Culturally most…