1. Hi, my name is Karsten Wade, Red Hat Community Architecture team
a/k/a 'quaid'
Red Hat Community Architecture team

2. Creating and nurturing communities of contributors
The Open Source Way:
Creating and nurturing
communities of contributors

3. the open source way (lowercase)

4. 1st, it's a cookbook:
Principle (what)
Implementation (how)
Example (why)

5. 2nd, it's created by those who know: actual contributors and
community experts

6. focus on spreading knowing with written knowledge
3rd, it's lightweight:
focus on spreading knowing
with written knowledge

7. 4th, it's incomplete on purpose:
to encourage participation and
different sources for examples

8. Upstream: TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki ... coming soon ;-P

9. “Choose open tools that can be extended”
E.g. why MediaWiki?
Ch. 4.8:
“Choose open tools that can be extended”
Ch :
“Use lightweight, open collaboration tools – wikis and give out access”

10. for your community needs ...
A book you can add to
and build on
for your community needs ...
... which teaches what you are
tired of saying over and over

11. The science about communities: Communities of Practice

12. “Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or
a passion for something they do and
learn how to do it better as
they interact regularly.”
- Etienne Wenger

13. Domain: Area of knowledge of interest to the community.

14. Community: Set of people who care about the domain

15. Practice: Means and tools the community uses to work in the domain

16. Principles for cultivating Communities of Practice:
Design for evolution
Open a dialogue between inside and
outside perspectives

17. Principles for cultivating Communities of Practice:
Invite different levels of
participation
Develop both public and private
community spaces

18. Principles for cultivating Communities of Practice:
Focus on value
Combine familiarity and excitement
Create a rhythm for the community

19. Community leadership is our community of practice;
The Open Source Way
is one of our handbooks

20. Interested? Talk with me
theopensourceway.org/wiki
theopensourceway.org/book
(Coming very soon!)