working at 120% without a burn-out
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Working at 120% without a burn-out
Sander van der Waal – OSS Watch
TransferSummit – 7 September 2011
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OSS Watch
UK based advisory service
Publicly funded to serve UK Higher Education (HE) sector
In existence since 2003
Helped develop and drive open source policy in HE
“OSS Watch provides unbiased advice and
guidance on the use, development, and
licensing of free and open source software.”
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Open Source
Licence
Code hosting
“I will make my project open source. I’ll put
an open source licence on it and stick it on
SourceForge when the project’s finished”
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Open Development
Licence
Code hosting
Governance model
Open up development process
“We’re starting this project and have read
your documents on governance models.
We’re thinking of a meritocratic model to
start with but are not sure.”
WebsiteMailing List
Version Control
IssueTracker
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Open up your project for collaboration
“If I set up a forum or mailing list people will
just be sending in queries and I have no time
to deal with all that.”
Hmm.. Let’s see..
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Production vs. collaboration
Production 100%
Production
Collaboration 40%
60%vs.
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Collaboration effort
User support
User experience
Evangelism and Marketing
Quality assurance
Graphics and artwork
Technical writing
Translations
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Why collaborate?
Turn 100% into 120%
Production
Collaboration 40%
60%
Overlapping
Collaboration 40%
30%
Local needs 30%
Overlapping
Collaboration 40%
120%
Local needs
Overlapping
Overlapping
* 3 =
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Ecosystem of projects
YOU?
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Want to get started collaborating?
Choose a governance model
Choose a licence
Open up your development process
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Governance Model: Benevolent Dictatorship
Decision making
• (Lazy) Community consensus
Conflict resolution
• Benevolent Dictator, or lieutenants make a decision
• Because they have the respect of the community
Sustainability
• Engage because you trust the benevolent dictator
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Governance Model: Meritocracy
Decision making
• (Lazy) Community consensus
Conflict resolution
• Those with merit decide
• Because they have the respect of the community
Sustainability
• Engage because you respect and trust the meritocracy
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Choose a licence
Only considering popular licences?
Copyleft vs. Permissive?
How to deal with patents?
Jurisdiction?
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Open Development tools Forums
Mailing Lists
Blogs
Social Networks
Micro blogging
Mail Archives Website
Version Control
IssueTracker
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Integrate and automate
Triggers
Set up ONLY
What you USE
Syndication
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Make your project known
Choose code hosting
Submit your project to project registries (Simal, Ohloh)
Publicise (blog, microblog, mailing lists)
Talk to people at events
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Read more
Open Development methodologyhttp://oss.ly/odm
Licence Differentiatorhttp://oss.ly/licdif
Document on community toolshttp://oss.ly/tools