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2024-01-31

Companies: fund work that isn’t new development

Failing to invest in your upstream projects presents a large business risk. Communities, like gardens, are more productive when tended to.

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2024-01-24

Don’t try to be too formal in policy writing

Don’t emulate legal language when writing policies for your community. The simpler the language, the easier everyone will understand.

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2024-01-17

Open source trends for 2024

With 2024 here, I take a look at a few trends I see in open source this year.

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2023-12-27

Open source leadership resolutions for 2024

If you’re looking for some inspiration for your new year’s resolutions, here’s what I’m thinking about for 2024.

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2023-12-20

How to get started in project management

Do you want to get started in project management but you’re not sure how? Open source projects have plenty of opportunity to jump in & help.

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2023-12-13

Focus release criteria on user-visible behavior

Focusing on user-visible behavior allows you distinguish between what you should fix and what you must fix.

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2023-12-06

Understand your community’s scope

It’s hard to say “we want to be for everyone” and continue on to “who is also interested in this work.”

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2023-11-29

It’s okay for your project to end

Open source projects don’t last forever, and that’s okay. The end of a project can be a sign of success, or at least partial success.

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2023-11-22

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2023-11-15

Translations represent the hardest part of bootstrapping trust

The difficulty in reviewing translations is what makes those contributions so important. But how do you bootstrap trust for your translators?

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