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Panel Discussion: Educating the Next Generation of Open Source Project ContributorsOpen Source Summit Europe 20252025-08-25
Covers concrete programs and outcomes: Google Summer of Code origins and evolution into university courses, a Carnegie Mellon model that moves from one-student…
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BoF: Collaboration With Universities and Enterprises OSPOOpen Source Summit Europe 20252025-08-25
Community OSPOs describe concrete wins and roadblocks: universities and companies use open source to hire talent, speed multi-university collaboration, and…
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The Business of Community: Strategic Open Source Engagement for Vertical Marketsfoss-north 20212021-06-01
Red Hat’s vertical community playbook focuses on three pillars — software projects, software foundations, and industry consortia — and five engagement modes…
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Love in the Time of Corona: Parenting, Pandemic, and ProfessionalismFOSS Backstage 20212021-02-10
Home-working parents juggle meetings with childcare and eldercare, with one live demo of a child interrupting a presentation and a manager reporting five hours…
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Keynote: Psychological Safety and the High Performing TeamDevConf.CZ 20202020-01-24
Google's 2015 Project Aristotle interviews 200 people and surveys 180 teams and finds psychological safety is the single strongest predictor of high…
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"Future of the open web and open source"Drupal Europe 20182018-09-10
Panel argues the open web is losing to closed platforms because they deliver better experiences and hoard data, and recommends concrete fixes: adopt AMP…
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What is community, anyway?DevRelCon London 20172017-12-06
Ten years of open source and developer-relations experience condense into three claims: the word community is diluted to meaninglessness, community work…
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I Am Your User, Why Do You Hate Me?FrOSCon 20162016-08-20
Argues that open source projects repel users through poor docs, hostile tone and arcane tools, then shows concrete evidence and fixes: a linguistic study finds…
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Cultivating EmpathyCodemotion Amsterdam 20162016-05-11
Argues that empathy is a learnable skill and gives concrete practices: active listening using nonviolent communication, reading fiction to stimulate empathetic…
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Cultivating EmpathyFrOSCon 20152015-08-22
Argues empathy is a learnable skill with cited studies showing simple priming increases empathetic responses, recommends concrete practices: active listening…
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Will the Real Technical People Please Stand Up?eurucamp 20152015-07-31
Claim: the phrase "not technical" is toxic because it masks bias and excuses lack of collaboration. Evidence: fifteen‑year anecdotal sweep and repeated moments…
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Cultivating Empathyeurucamp 20152015-07-31
Argues that empathy is a choice and a trainable skill backed by studies (NYT July 10 2015 and PLOS work linking fiction to emotional transportation), gives…
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The Human Element in DevelopmentGOTO Berlin 20142014-11-06
Five concrete case studies show how tools expose culture: a mailing list was forked into “team” and “discuss” lists, creating confusion and signaling…
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"Checking Your Privilege: A How-To for Hard Things"OSCON 20142014-07-20
Provides three concrete experiments to make privilege actionable: active listening by following and quietly learning from people unlike you (uses Twitter as…
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The Keeper of SecretsFOSDEM 20132013-02-02
The Dance of Community Leadership Whilst the mantra of free and open source software communities focuses on transparency and collaboration, community leaders…
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Keynote: How to Make Your Project BlossomBerlin Buzzwords 20122012-06-04
Community equals a group working toward a common goal not a set of tools and success hinges on specifics not slogans. Define your landscape with define goals…
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Chairman Opening KeynoteDjangoCon US 20082008-09-06
Organizers announce a requirement that contributors sign a contributor license agreement (modeled on Apache/Python CLAs), point to an FAQ and multiple…
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