Author: Ben Cotton

Ben formerly led open source messaging at Docker and was the Fedora Program Manager. He is the author of Program Management for Open Source Projects. Ben is an Open Organization Ambassador and frequent conference speaker. His personal website is Funnel Fiasco.

2024-09-04

The future of first-party open source events

The way first-party open source events are typically setup does not fit the world in 2024. A new approach splits talks, social, & workshops.

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2024-08-28

Strategic use of bikeshedding

Painting a bike shed can be an excellent icebreaker when getting a group to review a document draft.

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2024-08-21

Companies: make sustainable contributions

We learned over the past year or two that corporate participation in an open source project is not guaranteed. The contributions a company makes need to be sustainable long after the company stops participating.

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2024-08-15

Volunteers can’t be blockers

Figure out which processes are truly critical and accept that the non-critical ones may get missed from time to time. If you have paid contributors, they should be responsible for the critical processes.

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