Managing a large open source community with smart tools

Increasing your online presence in the open source community involves more than just writing and committing code. We need to create safe places to collaborate and communicate freely in order to involve more people than just our closest team members. Jonas Rosland and Stephanie Carlson outline a few of the tools they use to tackle this big task and discuss failures, successes, and lessons learned.

So you have people writing and committing code. What’s next? In the open source world, a project is only as good as the people who are creating it. We need to create communities that allow us to collaborate with people outside the borders of our organizations. We need to create safe spaces and a welcoming culture. We need to make our communities accessible and practical for everyday use. And to make things more complicated, we often have to measure the success of these communities. Jonas Rosland and Stephanie Carlson outline a few of the smart tools they use—for chats, emails, community metrics, project management, and more—to tackle this big task and discuss failures, successes, and lessons learned in managing large open source communities. And most importantly, Jonas and Stephanie show you how to cultivate a community of successful, happy, and collaborative contributors yourself.