No, I Won't Contribute to Your Open Source Project
*Excerpt
The growth of the open community is inspiring. Yet despite this, most projects find it remarkably difficult to get people to contribute. Why?
Description
The growth of the open community is inspiring. Every year more governments mandate the use of open standards. New peer reviewed journals promise free access to publicly funded research. Thousands of companies release new software projects to the open source environment.
Yet despite this, most projects find it remarkably difficult to get people to contribute.
Why?
This session will be a data-driven led discussion aimed toward exposing problems people have with contributing to open source projects and strategies for improving the situation.
Tags
community, culture, Open Source, contributors, management
Speaking experience
I spoke at OSBridge in 2011 (twice) and at both OSBridge (twice) and OSCON (once) in 2012. You'll be able to find my OSB talks easily enough with the links above and from my profile. The link to my OSCON talk is: http://www.oscon.com/oscon2012/public/schedule/detail/23293
This will be a new talk for 2013.
Speaker
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VM Brasseur
shoeless consulting- Website: http://shoeless-consulting.com/
- Blog: http://anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com/
- Twitter: vmbrasseur
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Biography
VM is a manager of technical people, projects, processes, products and p^Hbusinesses. In her almost 15 years in the tech industry she has been an analyst, programmer, product manager, software engineering manager and director of software engineering. Currently she is splitting her time between shoeless consulting—a tech recruiting and management consulting firm—and writing a book translating business concepts into geek speak.
VM blogs at {a=>h} and tweets at @vmbrasseur.
Sessions
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- Title: FAIL is Not a Four-Letter Word
- Track: Culture
- Room: B301
- Time: 1:30 – 2:15pm
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Excerpt:
Projects fail. Companies crash and burn. Screws fall out all the time; the world is an imperfect place. Just because it happens doesn’t mean we can’t do our best to prevent it or—at the very least—to minimize the damage when it does. As a matter of fact, embracing failure can be one of the best things you do for your organization.
- Speakers: VM Brasseur
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- Title: No, I Won't Contribute to Your Open Source Project
- Track: Culture
- Room: B301
- Time: 4:45 – 5:30pm
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Excerpt:
The growth of the open community is inspiring. Yet despite this, most projects find it remarkably difficult to get people to contribute. Why?
- Speakers: VM Brasseur