Rebecca Fernandez

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Raleigh, NC

Rebecca Fernandez is a Principal Program Manager at Red Hat, leading projects to help the company scale its open culture. She's an Open Organization Ambassador, contributed to The Open Organization book, and maintains the Open Decision Framework. She is interested in the intersection of open source principles and practices, and how they can transform organizations for the better.

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Authored Content

Haters gonna hate: 7 ways to deal with criticism

A 7-step plan for engaging your community's naysayers

Every community has at least one Mr. Grumpy. Here's a plan for helping naysayers make useful contributions.

3 essential skills for fostering productive debate in your IT team

Passionate, productive debate is a hallmark of open communities and organizations. Here's how to bring it into your IT team.

Be a force for good in your community

Find out how to give the gift of an out, learn about the power of positive intent, and more.

Introducing the Open Decision Framework

For the past few years at Red Hat, we've been grappling with the challenges of growing an open organization and sustaining our culture along the way. One tool we've been…

Putting meritocracy to the test: Open Org book club, chapter 4

Week 4 of The Open Organization book club kicked off on September 21. This week's topic was Chapter 4: Choosing meritocracy, not democracy, and Jim offered many tips on how to…

The Open Organization book club: Reclaiming meritocracy

When the Opensource.com team invited me to lead this week's book club, I was excited to dive into the chapter on meritocracy: the concept that good ideas can come from…

Contributed Content

Making open decisions at scale

Two compelling case studies demonstrate the benefits of open decision-making.

A brief guide to hiring with culture in mind

Open. Transparent. Collaborative. Fast-paced. Constant change. Those are words that I’d use to describe the work culture I've lived in for the last 13 years as a Red Hat…