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Title:

Secrets of Open Source Communities

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Organizer:
George DeMet, Palantir.net, Inc.
Description:
Leaders from several leading open source Web software communities will come together to compare and contrast the different approaches employed by their projects to motivate and engage both developers and users. We’ll explore how project leaders and community organizers work to incorporate community feedback and keep their projects moving forward.
Questions
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  1. What are the different ways that open source communities are structured and managed?
  2. How is the process of community-based open source software development fundamentally different from traditional proprietary software development?
  3. What challenges/opportunities do open source software communities face that proprietary software developers do not?
  4. How do commercial entities interact with different open source software communities?
  5. What is the role of the community in determining and enforcing open source licensing standards and compliance?
  6. How do open source communities publicize themselves to the outside world, and what is the extent to which these efforts are planned and coordinated?
  7. How do competing projects draw inspiration from each other, and to what extent can they cooperate to meet shared goals?
  8. How do different communities moderate and resolve internal conflicts?
  9. How do developers get involved with different open source software communities?
  10. Do community leaders play a strong role in determining the future direction of the project, or do they stand back and let the developer community drive new features and innovation?
Level:
Beginner
Category:
Branding / Marketing / Publicity, Business / Entrepreneurial / Monetization, Community / Online Community, Open Source, Social Networking
Type:
Panel
Event:
Interactive 2010
George DeMet
on 18/8/09
To provide a little bit more context for this panel, the idea is to bring together folks from open source projects that are managed in different ways to compare and contrast their experiences. For example, some open source projects are managed from the "ground up" (via a large developer base), some are managed from the "top down" (by a single developer or small core group of developers), and others are closely associated with a single commercial or non-profit entity.

I've discussed this panel with leaders from several open source Web projects already; candidates that I'm considering include Drupal, Joomla!, Wordpress, and Alfresco, though other suggestions are welcome as well!
Steve Fisher
on 24/8/09
The CMS Showdown panel that George ran last yearat SXSW was very interesting and timely. So many people are looking into what open source CMS to use or even what project is the best fit for them to offer contributions. I'm looking forward to this session. Thumbs up.
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on 16/10/09
Sounds like a good bunch to me.
free online games
on 24/10/09
The CMS Showdown panel that George ran last yearat SXSW was very interesting and timely. So many people are looking into what open source CMS to use or even what project is the best fit for them to offer contributions. I'm looking forward to this session. Thumbs up.
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