Deciding between continuity and change in your Open Source community
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Case study of replacing a bespoke conference manager called Zookeeper (a fork per year since 2010) with a Symposion/Django base and a new ticket-sales app funded by the PSF (Registrasion); five years of failed attempts since 2014 precede a successful push using deadlines, a working prototype and grant funding. The talk claims volunteers shift only when pain is clear and working code prevents bikeshedding, small staged migrations win, and shows the new system is currently functional.
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