Open-Source-Communities

The contribution phase of Outreachy can be intimidating. Check these best practices for mentors organizing a non-coding Outreachy internship.

Brené Brown suggests seven elements to trust in her book, "Braving the Wilderness". You can remember these elements as an acronym: "BRAVING".

Recently, I came across three product roadmaps from Proton. They did a great job creating transparent product roadmaps. Here is what they did.

Should we be too quick to discard negative, harmful responses in a community survey? This short review considers a time when an Open Source community is evaluating its community with a survey. What did we decide to do in the end?

In 2021, CHAOSS initiated a review of its diversity, equity, and inclusion practices. This post summarizes progress made by the team in 2022.

This post describes my coaching and mentoring work with the UNICEF Venture Fund in 2021-2022 on the Digital Public Goods Standard.

A story in which I visit the Fedora Council ticket tracker and find an important opportunity to advocate for contributors from Iran.

The UNICEF Innovation Fund offers a unique Open Source mentorship programme. This article looks back at the highlights of 2020/2021.

Open Source communities often turn to a committee model for governing their projects. Sometimes it works, but other times it does not. Why?

What if dependencies took a human-centered, or community-centered, approach? We describe dependencies in machine terms, but we miss something.