Open Source & Feelings 2015
2015-10-12..2015-10-13
Seattle, United States
[Open Source & Feelings 2015, Open Source & Feelings 2016]
who it's for
community managers, open source maintainers, diversity and inclusion leads, project governance leads, documentation writers, developer advocates, community organizers
topics
code of conduct incident response; contributor onboarding practices; documentation hosting and translation; salary transparency and negotiation; non-violent communication OFNR; empathy training and self-empathy; sustaining volunteer funding models; family inclusive conference policies; Twitter chat community building; fast code review workflows; roleplaying for community skills
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| What Part of "... for Life" Don't You Understand? | Jacob Kaplan-Moss | 36m |
Project governance shifts from a self-appointed Benevolent Dictator for Life model to community control after a resignation and a slow fade from core… | ||
| Re-inventing the Rosetta Stone Together | Mariko Kosaka | 22m |
Claims that open-source culture is anglocentric and shows concrete fixes: using GitHub issues and Slack to form language teams, translating docs and blog… | ||
| Learning to Empathy | Alex harms | 30m |
The central claim is that empathy is a visceral learned skill, not a set of phrases, and it shows up as choices and practices: a five-minute breath exercise… | ||
| Designing with Empathy | Greg Tarnoff | 32m |
Argues that empathy wins when design shows specifics: measureable biases like 80/20 power-user bias, validate ideas with prototypes and user testing until they… | ||
| Creating A Space For Us: How A Twitter Chat Turned Into A Virtual... | Stephanie Morillo | 22m |
A Twitter chat seeded under #WOCinTech chat becomes a functioning community that raises $6,000 from Fund Club, builds a website and mailing list, and runs… | ||
| From the Inside Out: How Self-Talk Affects Your Community | Kat Toomajian | 37m |
Claim: reducing negative self-talk raises confidence morale and contributor retention. Evidence: Dreamwidth reports ~50 active volunteers two thirds women and… | ||
| Enforcing Your Code of Conduct: Effective Incident Response | Audrey Eschright | 23m |
Provides concrete steps: a checklisted incident flow from intake through follow up, templates for private reporting and public acknowledgement, and an actual… | ||
| Let's Continue to Talk About Pay | Lauren Voswinkel | 19m |
#talkpay on May 1 encourages publishing salaries and the uploader lists $122,000 disclosed publicly as a datapoint; refusing to give previous salary coincides… | ||
| Welcoming People (and Other Hard Problems) | Tute Costa | 17m |
Argues that measurable, concrete practices increase newcomer retention: a clear README and tag issues on GitHub, short acknowledgement comments plus fast code… | ||
| Non-Violent Communication for Fun, Profit, and Self Defense | Isaac Z. Schlueter | 43m |
Argues that Non‑Violent Communication (NVC) is a concrete toolkit for maintainer–user conflict, teaches the observations feelings needs requests (OFNR)… | ||
| Documentation as Empathy | Eric Holscher | 19m |
Read the Docs launches as a hosting platform in 2010 that uses a commit hook auto-build to publish docs, and the community tool grows into Read the Docs with… | ||
| A cry for help: What Answering 911 Teaches Us About... | Taylor Dewey | 35m |
Three years on 911 yields concrete tactics: open questions and measured silence that got him to put the gun down, a protocol that turns minutes into survival… | ||
| Back in My Day... | Bryan Liles | 36m |
Specifics listed: Node running JavaScript on servers; early dynamic web built with CGI and Java applets; open source distributed via BBSes; colossal Linux… | ||
| How to be a Corporate Open Source Citizen | Casey West | 25m |
Companies open source as a strategy and the useful details are concrete: stop making GitHub a dumping ground, set up independent governance (foundation or… | ||
| Listen to Your (and All) Mothers: How to Create Family-Inclusive... | Jen Myers | 26m |
Runs a Chicago program creating beginning coding workshops for mothers and daughters teaching HTML CSS and JavaScript, and reports that bringing kids works… | ||
| Ensuring the Sustainability of Your Code Learning Community | Rachel Ober | 46m |
Creates a self‑sustaining RailsBridge NYC chapter that runs free 1.5‑day workshops, sells out within 24 hours with max ~60 students, and faces burnout after… | ||
| What Roleplaying Games Can Teach Us About Open Source Communities | Alan Nelson | 12m |
Claim: roleplaying classes map to concrete open source roles and that projects fail without those roles. The talk names specific mappings—mage = coder, rogue =… | ||
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