Links 1 through 10 of 22 by Dave Neary tagged management
http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/09/30/how-to-manage-employees-when-...
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http://justwriteclick.com/2010/03/31/hurdles-and-hardships-using-wikis-for-...
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Sums up nicely many of the issues we've had with using MediaWiki for technical documentation in Maemo.
http://larryblumenthal.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/six-lessons-learned-from-la...
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Community growing & gardening lessons learned from experience. They echo much of what I've run into over the years too.
http://users.jyu.fi/~koskinen/smcosts.htm
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A study of maintenance costs - useful data indeed for the cost of maintaining out-of-tree forks of free software projects.
http://blogs.open.collab.net/oncollabnet/2008/09/is-open-source.html
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One thought on patch management from Jack Repenning: "Open-source projects are community works, not baskets for drive-by contribution, little falling-away jump shot-patches"
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10040229-16.html
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Saving some links relevant to my OSCON presentation. Matt Asay laments the difficulty in being a "drive-by delevoper" (nice phrase).
http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2009/05/18/community-analysis-as-risk-manageme...
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http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/07/jobs-of-the-fut.html
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Seth Gidon lists job requirements for online community organisers - this would go equally for FOSS community "managers" too
http://www.stormyscorner.com/2008/09/companies-are-n.html
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Another link relevant in the context of my OSBC presentation - companies are not people, and companies are not members of any community I'm part of. Companies build up capital and trust, through continued investment of their employees in the project, but that trust is connected to people, not to the corporate entity.
http://www.openlogic.com/blogs/2008/09/trust-is-earned-patch-by-patch/
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Stormy points out that Matt Asay's disappointment that working upstream is hard is surprising - it *should* be hard to build trust in an online community in the same way it is in real life communities.
