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Parent categories: Technical Leadership
Other tags: | Technical Leadership: Software Development |
A graduate student perspective on overcoming barriers to interacting with open-source software - Oihane Cereceda, Danielle E.A. Quinn It’s easy to forget how confusing and intimidating it can be to work with open source projects for the first time - filing an issue, submitting a PR (is this change too trivial? Am I submitting the PR right?). This is a description from the point of view of a grad student on the issues with interacting with open source communities for the first time
Continue...Other tags: | Strategy: Product/Service Management |
Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats facing the GNU Autotools - Zachary Weinberg Another very transparent product-focused assessment; a simple but thorough SWOT analyses of the current GNU Autotools stack, which hasn’t been updated in some time (which itself makes the updates harder since the entire process is “rusty”), and which has enormous legacy baggage, but still has opportunities.
Continue...Other tags: | Becoming A Manager: Diversity |
Open Source Communities Need More Safe Spaces and Codes of Conducts. Now. - Jennifer Riggins, The New Stack Codes of conduct in Open Source Software—for warm and fuzzy feelings or equality in community? - Vandana Singh, Brice Bongiovanni, William Brandon, Software Quality Journal Riggins walks us through the need for codes of conduct for open source projects, pointing out the rather shocking statistic that women make up less than 3% of open source communities, and that this has been stagnant for two decades. Between higher...
Continue...Minimum Viable Governance: lightweight community structure to grow your FOSS project - Justin Colannino Growing a community around an open source research software effort to the point that there are external maintainers is a sign of huge success - but it makes things way more complicated. It’s a pain to be the sole maintainer, but at least there’s clarity in decision making. Here Colannino describes the “Minimum Viable Governance” (MVG) set of template documents for bootstrapping a real open source governance framework. Some areas -...
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