Recommendations for OpenLogic's Open Source Census

Last week, I was excited by, and then disappointed with, OpenLogic's Open Source Census project –  while the project has promise, OpenLogic planned to license the complete data set only to project sponsors (and I didn't feel that they were being very forthright about the matter.)
Stormy Peters, OpenLogic's community manager caught up with me to [...]

Open Source Census

Stormy just pointed a mailing list that I subscribe to at the Open Source census project.
At a glance, the project looks well thought-out — software, documentation, legal agreements, FAQs and so on are all in order.
The only thing that jumps out at me as missing is a notice about what license census data will be [...]

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SCALE 6x: Wrapup - People

While I met a lot of great people at SCALE  (Michael, Moose, Sharon and a host more) I had generally interesting non-private discussions with (or observations about) the following:

Allison Randal - OSCON co-chair and Parrot architect - gave a great presentation on Parrot and an excellent  low-stress guide to effective speaking. We also spent some [...]

Scale 6x: Stormy Peters: What is a Community Manager?

The first day of SCALE 6x, I camped out in the Women in Open Source track. One of the sessions that I caught during this day was Stormy Peters' excellent, "What is a Community Manager?" presentation. My notes - in point form rather than prose - follow.

Tags: Alolita Sharma, Bytesfree.org, community, Community Manager, conference, Dawn [...]

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