Keynote: How to Make Your Project Blossom
summary
Community equals a group working toward a common goal not a set of tools and success hinges on specifics not slogans. Define your landscape with define goals and non goals, make all paths to contribution explicit, do targeted asks, and remove poisonous participants early, plucking weeds early. Case study: OpenMRS builds an electronic medical record for HIV care in Africa, adopts HL7, trains local developers with government funding, doubles developer count and creates paid local jobs, and sustains growth with dedicated community management and clear onboarding resources.
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chapters (25)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:57Agenda
- 3:32Community
- 4:26Open Source Community
- 7:08Scratch your own itch
- 9:44Tell stories
- 11:50Tools do not a community
- 13:30Tools are a guide
- 13:57Tools are a reflection
- 15:38Thriving communities are not homogeneous
- 17:54Cultivate your community
- 18:59Define your landscape
- 21:47Assessing your landscape
- 24:11Make all paths to success clear
- 26:07Make specific asks of people
- 29:33Plucking out your weeds
- 31:42Nurturing your seedlings
- 33:41Companion planting
- 38:54Cultivating Community
- 39:46Case Study OpenMRS
- 40:19OpenMRS Project
- 45:18OpenMRS Growth
- 46:09Setting Explicit Goals
- 49:25One parting thought
- 50:53Questions
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