The Apereo Foundation invited me to speak at their Micro Conference Series. Abstract: Collaboration is a key part of open source projects, and that includes collaborating with other communities. Open source projects can work with their upstreams, downstreams, and even their competition. But how do you do it well? This presentation draws from the experiences of the Fedora and openSUSE...

Don’t hoard responsibility. Give new contributors a sense of ownership so that they’ll stick around your community.