[ad_1] Szilvi Kádár, Daniella Kőrössy, and I are the organizers of Django Girls Budapest, a free workshop that teaches women how to code. We held our first Django Girls workshop in December 2014, and we’re currently planning our fourth event. We’d like to share some bits and pieces of event organizing advice, and we hope…

[ad_1] This is Part 2 in a series of articles on community management best practices. Read Part 1: How community building can help an organization’s bottom line, and my collection of 16 resources for measuring open source community ROI. If you are part of an organization looking to get into the community-support game, you would…

[ad_1] Between the release of the new Raspberry Pi 3 on March 1 and our Pi Day celebration last week, it’s been a big month for fans of the $35 mini computer. To add to the excitement, we’re pleased to announce our Raspberry Pi 3 Sweepstakes, where we’ll be giving away a Raspberry Pi 3 Ultimate…

[ad_1] Did you know that O’Reilly’s annual Open Source Convention, OSCON, is moving from their regular location of Portland, Oregon, to Austin, Texas (May 16-19)? As an Austin local, I’m ecstatic to have my favorite conference in my favorite city. I’ve always said (and read) that Austin and Portland are similar cities. Both are a little weird, both have that small…

[ad_1] The free and open source community has been having a lot of conversations about diversity, especially gender diversity, over the last few years. Although there is still plenty to do, we’ve made some real strides. After all, the first step is admitting there is a problem. Another type of diversity that has gotten much…

[ad_1] Over the past few weeks, I’ve shared some thoughts about several of the most common branding issues we see in our work with open source companies at New Kind. I’ve covered how to vet the name you are considering for an open source project and outlined the pros and cons of some of the…

[ad_1] Some people call patience a virtue. To me, it’s the single toughest lesson I had to learn when joining an open organization. It dawned on me recently in the middle of a class discussion with a group of MBA students at North Carolina State University. When I visited their classroom a few weeks ago…

[ad_1] This year at SxSW, I kicked things off by attending a great talk with the director of Google.org, Jacquelline Fuller. She had a conversation with Hugh Forrest, and started by letting us know that to her Austin feels like a “Googley” city where everyone is very friendly. Their conversation focused on a topic that is near and dear to the…

[ad_1] Recently I’ve had several conversations with open source friends and colleagues, each discussion touching upon—but not directly focused on—the subject of why a company would/should/could support a community around a project it has released as free/open source, or more generally to support the communities of F/LOSS projects on which they rely. After the third…

[ad_1] Most people working in open source communities understand the value the community brings to projects and organizations. But how do you show that ROI on a spreadsheet or pie chart? I provide an overview in How community building can help an organization’s bottom line. And I’ve collected this additional list of resources, which will…