Santa Cruz, CA
For the last decade Karsten has been teaching and living the open source way. As a member of Red Hat's premier community leadership team, he helps with various community activities in the Fedora Project and other projects Red Hat is involved in. As a 15 year IT industry veteran, Karsten has worked most sides of common business equations as an IS manager, professional services consultant, technical writer, and developer advocate.
Karsten lives in his hometown of Santa Cruz, CA with his wife and two daughters on their small urban farm, Fairy-Tale Farm, where they focus on growing their own food and nurturing sustainable community living.
Authored Comments
Just a follow-up on the Chatham House Rule discussion, one of the reasons good open collaborative development and free software projects work so well is that decisions made in the past can be reviewed via public archiving. When a decision process of who said what is cloaked with anonymity, it is impossible to later recreate and understand why decisions were made. This undermines the ability for a community to learn, self-heal, and improve. Reasoning of past decisions is left to the memory of those who were present, and we know how inaccurate memory can be.
In most communities, it is a <a href="https://www.theopensourceway.org/wiki/Communities_of_practice#Develop_both_public_and_private_community_spaces">good idea to have private spaces</a> for some discussions, but relevant material needs to <a href="https://www.theopensourceway.org/wiki/Stuff_everyone_knows_and_forgets_anyway#Take_extra_extra_extra_care_to_have_all_discussions_in_the_open">go back to the public space</a> for all to understand and, if not agree with, at least not be surprised by secret reasoning.
Just a quick drive-by-observation. The red-owl circle mark in the second logo looks too much like the Red Hat 'Shadowman' logo, I think it will be mistaken for Shadowman at small sizes and at quick glances.