Robin Muilwijk

Congratulations to all that won an award! Also thanks to everyone else in the community who is contributing regularly through articles, comments etc.

Great article Jason! I am currently active in my second 'large' global open source project (not counting Opensource.com), as board member of a community board which is responsible for governing the project.

Your article gives me some new insights, but also confirm some of what I/We already apply in terms of governance. It's also interesting to see how OpenStack has organized this within their foundation. What specifically appeals to me are those Technical and User Committees.

I agree with you some form of control is necessary, especially to bring such projects to an enterprise level. The challenge for a project will be to find the balance in the level of control, put capable people in the right functions/roles, and the form in which they apply this governance at their organizational level.