Handbook for Successful Online Open Source Sprints
summary
Organizers move an in-person mentored sprint to three regional slots covering all time zones, run 24 hours of support with a beginners help desk and a dedicated git help desk, and host main sprint coordination on Discord voice and text channels while using Zoom for kickoff workshops. Eleven projects run concurrently, moderation combines bots with trained humans and a reporting command, swag is replaced by regular check-ins and a wins channel, and an open-source handbook (mentoredsprints.dev) documents what worked.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:38WE LOVE SPRINTS
- 3:46DEALING WITH TIMEZONES
- 6:08ONLINE INTERPERSONAL INTERACTIONS
- 8:59SUPPORTING PARTICIPANTS
- 11:03KEEPING FOLKS ENGAGED
- 13:32PROVIDING A SAFE ENVIRONMENT
- 18:51ONE STOP HANDBOOK
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