Open Source Bridge

Excerpt

Description

You might not even realize what obstacles are blocking your colleagues from efficiently collaborating with FLOSS projects. In this presentation, you’ll learn how to take the next step in encouraging employees to contribute to FLOSS, with specific recommendations for fixing these issues.

I’ll introduce tools you can use, such as:

• tuned employee performance criteria and appraisals
• FLOSS-friendly project management strategies
• sneaky-yet-sensible PR

I’ll mine my experience as lead project manager and personnel manager at Collabora for examples. And I want to hear your experience and suggestions, too — for example, can FLOSS leaders help with tactics like sensible copyright assignment policies?

Tags

community, transparency, performance, project management, frameworks, howto, meta

Speaking experience

Speaker

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  Sumana Harihareswara

  Wikimedia and GNOME
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  Biography

  Sumana Harihareswara manages projects and people, currently as Volunteer Development Coordinator at Wikimedia. She has worked at Collabora, GNOME, and QuestionCopyright.org, Fog Creek Software, Behavior, and Salon.com, and contributed to the AltLaw, Empathy, Miro, and Zeitgeist open source projects. She is also currently editor and release organizer for GNOME Journal and a blogger at GeekFeminism. Harihareswara has presented at Foo Camp and Open Source Bridge 2010, MindCamp Seattle 2008 (“Three Models of Power: A Political Science Lens on Your Organization”), taught several courses at UC Berkeley, and performed at Bay Area stand-up comedy venues. She holds an MS in Technology Management from Columbia University.

  Sessions

  • * The Second Step: HOWTO encourage open source work at for-profits
    • Title: The Second Step: HOWTO encourage open source work at for-profits
    • Track: Business
    • Room: Fremont
    • Time: 3:45 – 4:30pm
    • Excerpt:

      Even at pro-FLOSS businesses, logistical obstacles and incentive problems get in the way of giving back. I’ll show you how to fix that.

    • Speakers: Sumana Harihareswara