April 2021 - Contrib - The Opensourceway 2.0 List Archives

Visit us the Open Source Way booth at Red Hat Summit Virtual Experience 27-28 April

by Karsten Wade

All: This year we are joining with a few other communities in an "Open Source Knowledge Sharing" virtual booth. https://www.redhat.com/en/summit During the event, a few of us will be in the booth chat. If you attend the no-cost Summit, stop by and say hi. If you come, you can see the release of a few videos produced by Bryan Behrenshausen and myself for the Open Org and Open Source Way communities. The two minute introduction to the both projects is cute, but the real powerhouse is a discussion about open knowledge sharing with members of both communities (Jen Kelchner, Leslie Hawthorn, Rebecca Fernandez, Sam Knuth, and Bryan and myself.) Kind regards, - Karsten PS: We'll share those videos publicly as soon as the event is over! -- Karsten Wade [he/him/his]| Senior Community Architect | @quaid Red Hat Open Source Program Office (OSPO) : @redhatopen https://community.redhat.com | https://osci.io https://theopensourceway.org | https://github.com/theopensourceway

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The Open Source Way 2.0 now available

by Karsten Wade

The Open Source Way community [1] is pleased to announce the latest release of the Open Source Way guidebook. Written by practitioners from several organizations, the Open Source Way guidebook collects best practices for catalyzing, supporting, managing, and sustaining open source communities. This release (v 2.0) is under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. The guidebook is now available in various formats at the following locations: HTML: https://www.theopensourceway.org/the_open_source_way-guidebook-2.0.html PDF: https://www.theopensourceway.org/the_open_source_way-guidebook-2.0.pdf The Open Source Way is an upstream community of open source practitioners who cultivate and curate best practices for open source community management. The project is always seeking contributions. For more details—and to get involved—please visit: https://github.com/theopensourceway/ [1] https://www.theopensourceway.org/ Information About 2.0 Version ============================= This community release of The Open Source Way, "a guidebook for community management best practices," features a number of notable new elements, including: * New chapters. Contributors have added material on governance, inclusivity, accessibility, and project members' safety and well-being to track how community management practices are evolving. * New sections. Guidebook material is now grouped into chapters addressing topics like "getting started," "attracting users," "guiding participants," and "growing contributors." * Improved structure. The guidebook now offers a prescribed path for readers, and includes various checklists to enhance a focus on growing your community of users while keeping the barriers to use, participate, and contribute as low as possible. * New format. Chapters are now collaboratively written to feature a wider range of experiences. * Modularity. Chapters can now stand on their as independent guides, but form a cohesive story when read together, so readers can access the material and proceed however they wish. Beyond the guidebook, the Open Source Way project is a community of practice for anyone interested in open source community management. We don't just explore what community management is and how to do it, but also discuss why we consider certain practices "best." We're a diverse group of practitioners who cultivate and curate best practices for creating, growing, and sustaining innovative open source communities. Our recently updated and published 2.0 version of The Open Source Way, our guidebook of best practices, was created as a fully open collaboration using our own recommendations in action. "The 2.0 version of this guidebook is the culmination of a decade of discussions sparked by the 1.0 release," said Karsten Wade, primary author of the 2011 debut and lead for the 2.0 update. "Just as open source development has evolved, we wanted to evolve the way we presented best practices around managing communities of contributors. Part of that is the vision of a community of practitioners of all levels, working to understand and improve on this important work with and beyond just one guidebook. I'm thrilled as I anticipate how this community is going to expand its membership and activities over the next decade." Additional Resources ==================== * Code of Conduct: https://theopensourceway.org/Code_of_Conduct.html * Project discussion forum: https://www.theopensourceway.org/the_open_source_way-guidebook-2.0.html#_... * Guidebook GitHub repo: https://github.com/theopensourceway/guidebook * Guidebook README: https://github.com/theopensourceway/guidebook/blob/main/README.md * Contributing to guidebook: https://github.com/theopensourceway/guidebook/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md -- Karsten Wade [he/him/his]| Senior Community Architect | @quaid Red Hat Open Source Program Office (OSPO) : @redhatopen https://community.redhat.com | https://osci.io https://theopensourceway.org | https://github.com/theopensourceway/guide

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New chat server via Element.io #opensourceway:matrix.org

by Karsten Wade

Hey all, In preparation for sending out the 2.0 release announcement tomorrow[1] I created the Element/Matrix room for us. This is my first time with this chat tool, pardon my stumbles: #opensourceway:matrix.org You can access this using the Element.io app, either via your browser or native mobile device app. The intention is that this is the open chat interface for readers and contributors to interact (aka "the community"), so it's as open by default as is reasonable and safe. To make sure we do have a safe space, a handful of us will need to volunteer for Admin or Moderator roles. Especially if you have Matrix/Element experience, I would greatly appreciate your early involvement to help fix any mistakes I'm making. Kind regards, - Karsten [1]https://github.com/theopensourceway/theproject/blob/main/marketing/2.0-... -- Karsten Wade [he/him/his]| Senior Community Architect | @quaid Red Hat Open Source Program Office (OSPO) : @redhatopen https://community.redhat.com | https://next.redhat.com | https://osci.io https://theopensourceway.org | https://github.com/theopensourceway/guide

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Default branch is renamed to 'main', steps for you

by Karsten Wade

Following the directions on this page, which I found easy to perform ... https://docs.github.com/en/github/administering-a-repository/renaming-a-b... ... I renamed our default branches to 'main'. https://github.com/theopensourceway/guidebook https://github.com/theopensourceway/theopensourceway_old_website https://github.com/theopensourceway/theproject If you have a clone of one of our repos[1] you need to do the following steps, as described in the docs above. cd /path/to/local/clone git branch -m master main git fetch origin git branch -u origin/main main If it complains after the first step that 'main' already exists, proceed forward and it should finish with" Branch 'main' set up to track remote branch 'main' from 'origin'. This concludes issue #106. https://github.com/theopensourceway/guidebook/issues/106 I'm relieved this is done. I've been putting work into https://inclusivenaming.org and hadn't come back to clean up our own house. Well, every little turn of the wrench and sweep of the broom it is. Kind regards, - Karsten [1] A clone meaning, you have gone to the command line and run 'git clone url_from_github_for_cloning'. If yes, these are the three repos I changed and you will need to run the above commands for each repo: 'guidebook' 'theproject' 'theopensourceway_old_website' -- Karsten Wade [he/him/his]| Senior Community Architect | @quaid Red Hat Open Source Program Office (OSPO) : @redhatopen https://community.redhat.com | https://next.redhat.com | https://osci.io https://theopensourceway.org | https://github.com/theopensourceway/guide

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