1 / 11

Building Community

Building Community. Jim Hall. Background. What you need. Web site Wiki Mailing list CVS/SVN. Roles. Web Usability Documentation/wiki Coding. Gotchas. Poisonous personalities Conflict happens Bottom-up, not top-down Balance (dictator vs democracy). Leadership. Giving up control

erv
Download Presentation

Building Community

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Building Community Jim Hall

  2. Background

  3. What you need • Web site • Wiki • Mailing list • CVS/SVN

  4. Roles • Web • Usability • Documentation/wiki • Coding

  5. Gotchas • Poisonous personalities • Conflict happens • Bottom-up, not top-down • Balance (dictator vs democracy)

  6. Leadership • Giving up control • Leading / managing / doing • New directions • Taking a pulse

  7. Engagement • Frequent releases • Version numbers (1.1 vs 1.10) • Source code • Test builds

  8. Flame wars http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/duty_calls.png

  9. Flame wars • Everything is public • Archives • Not real time • Cultural/language differences

  10. Balance • Work • Life • Project

  11. Questions? • Jim Hall • jhall@freedos.org • http://www.freedos.org/jhall/

More Related