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summary
A community forks LiveJournal into DreamWidth in 2009 and manages a codebase of quarter of a million lines of code with persistent technical debt, staffed by 50–60 active volunteers (about two thirds women and 65% non-coders), five field offices and six paid staff. Governance uses a written constitution, diversity statement, guiding principles and an IRC code of conduct. Practical tools include an IRC quote database, a jargon wiki, semi-automated “welcoming dance” via infobot, hosted development sandboxes, a CLA and an anti-spam workflow; only four or five people ever install the code on their own servers.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:24About Horizontal LLC
- 4:14The problem
- 4:42Developing a constitution
- 9:27Social side of Dreamwidth
- 10:43Diversity Statement
- 12:36Legacy Code
- 14:55Shifting your culture
- 17:55Creating an IRC channel
- 19:35Using the quotes database
- 22:58Creating a wiki page
- 25:21Documentation
- 33:03Exclusionary reputation
- 35:22Trial and Error
- 43:34Questions
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