[Contrib] Re: May 2021 community manager report (with a bit of April thrown in)

I forgot to add this blog post, which came out last Friday: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/guidebook-open-source-community-management... On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 12:05 PM Karsten Wade <kwade(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > Hi all, > > Starting in mid-April after the formal announcement of the 2.0 release, I > switched my focus toward attracting users (readers) to the guide and > community. Here are those outreach activities, finishing with the list of > things that need all of our attention and my actions. > > *ToC* > * Events > * Talks > * Videos > * Social media > * Cross-stream work > * Needs attention > > Sorry for the length of this report, a lot has built up in the last six > weeks. Unless there are objections, I would like to start doing a shorter, > weekly report. Then you all will know what is happening as it's happening! > > = Events > > == Red Hat Summit 27, 28 April 2021 > > Our community's first formal expo show appearance was at the Red Hat > Summit virtual conference, as part of the Community Central section in the > virtual expo hall. We shared a booth area with other "Open Knowledge > Sharing" projects, the Open Organization and Patternfly. > > Our part of the booth, the videos, and the one-sheet PDF "handout" were > shared with the Open Organization (http://theopenorganization.org/), as > Bryan Berenshausen and I felt it made a good fit, and helped carry the Open > Source Way in on the Open Org's existing coattails of Red Hat Summits past. > > > https://github.com/theopensourceway/theproject/blob/main/marketing/collat... > > In the videos section below are links to the videos we had at the joint > booth. > > = Talks > > I'm working on a common presentation deck, with a minimal viable product > (MVP) version for the first upcoming talk at Upstream. It is focused 90% on > attracting users (readers), but the ease of contributing comes up often. > > This deck is available for anyone to use when talking about the Open > Source Way. I intend to use it as the starting point for whatever talks are > accepted this year. Improvements will go back into the canonical template. > Link coming soon. > > == Accepted - Upstream 7 June > > "Community management guidebook: the Open Source Way 2.0" > 11:30 AM - 11:55 AM EST > https://upstream.live/speaker-2021/karsten-wade > > "Upstream is a one-day celebration of open source, the developers who use > it, and the maintainers who make it." > > I'm giving a presentation on how the guidebook can help in creating and > sustaining an open source community. The session is recorded and I'll be > live in the session chat for Q&A with attendees. > > Registration is no-cost, and there are incentives (a viewing party kit) > for organizations that sign up more than 10 attendees. > > https://upstream.live > > == Submitted / Submitting > > These are all submissions I have made or am about to make for upcoming > conferences this year. If you would like to submit a talk somewhere about > the Open Source Way, let me know how I can help! If you have suggestions > for other conferences I should submit to, let me know. ;-) > > === All Things Open (ATO) 18, 19 October—https://www.allthingsopen.org/ > > ATO is a hybrid virtual/in-person event in Raleigh, NC, describing itself > as, "A universe of events and platforms focused on open source, open tech > and the open web." > > === DevConf.US (02, 03 September)—https://www.devconf.info/us/ > > DevConf.US is a no-cost virtual event sponsored by Red Hat with a > particular emphasis on including students, new graduates, and people who > are new to attending and speaking at technology conferences. > > === OSPOCon (27-29 September)—https://events.linuxfoundation.org/ospocon/ > > OSPOCon is a hybrid virtual/in-person event in Seattle, WA, billed as, "An > event for those working in open source program offices in organizations > that rely on open source technologies to learn and share best practices, > experiences and tooling to overcome challenges they face." > > = Videos > > While we're working on video ideas for this project—more on this below in > "Needs attention"—here are a few produced for the Red Hat Summit in April. > > == Open Knowledge Roundtable - Red Hat Summit April 2021 > > A handful of authors from the Open Organization and the Open Source Way > discuss the benefits of sharing knowledge in an open source way: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTjhqdW7fjk > > == Intro—Open Source Knowledge Share Booth | RH Summit 2021 > > Short introduction to the booth and both communities: > > https://youtu.be/T6h-TiDbCFE > > = Social media > > We started a series of tweets from the @RedHatOpen Twitter account, one > for each chapter of the book: > > https://twitter.com/hashtag/OpenSourceWay?src=hashtag_click&f=live > > = Cross-stream work > > There are a growing number of projects providing canonical sources for > content useful for practitioners of the open source way. We can handle this > in multiple ways in future versions of the guidebook and other OSW content > repositories. One is to link out to other content as a reference. Another > is to pull in some or all of the content for our own treatment of the > practices. > > The efforts I am working with in this cross-stream fashion are IEEE SA > OPEN and the Inclusive Naming Initiative, both explained below. I chose > these two projects because they are new and interesting and are working on > solutions not already addressed in the Open Source Way. And honestly, they > are around topics and principles I have a strong personal interest in, from > projects that can use the skills and expertise I already have. > > == IEEE SA OPEN > https://saopen.ieee.org/ > https://opensource.ieee.org/ > > Still in its opening moves, IEEE SA OPEN provides a 100% free/open source > software development and hosting platform for open source software, > hardware, and content projects. The vision is an open source development > platform with IEEE SA OPEN tools and processes wired directly into GitLab > CE and other similarly 100% open source software. > > I am participating in this project around two core ideas: > > 1. What are the gaps in our guidebook? > > The proof in our guidebook and growing body of best practices is in how > they work when applied to an actual project, new or existing. IEEE SA OPEN > was a newly announced project at the same time as the 2.0 content was > finished in Dec 2020, and I joined in as a chance to see the guidebook in > action. > > This inquiry involves lightly mapping IEEE SA OPEN processes to OSW > practices. Through my involvement in the Community Advisory Group (CAG) I > am helping advise new projects and collaborating on creating and rolling > out processes. > > Any gaps I identify will come back to the Open Source Way as either > chapter ideas or actual content to merge into new or existing chapters, as > was done by Andy Oram for the 2.0 release. > > https://opensource.ieee.org/community-advisory-group > > 2. What ideas and content do we want to reference from or merge into the > Open Source Way? > > One sub-group is focused on documentation, especially as to how it can be > built into and curated through the automation on the platform. For example, > a new project would have to create, draft, and complete key documents such > as governance and a README, with the templates and processes wired into the > GitLab platform. > > The first document we are working on there is the template and process > for a Community Handbook Toolkit. A Community Handbook is a document that > has all the information and instructions a contributor needs to do anything > within the community. When something is missing from the Community > Handbook, it is that contributor's responsibility to document the answer > back into the Community Handbook once they have figured it out. > > > https://opensource.ieee.org/community-advisory-group/documentation-curati... > > Another new sub-group I am working with is "Open Community Development > Models", which plans to help open source projects on the platform decide > which archetypes, governance, license, and so on to adopt. > > https://opensource.ieee.org/community-advisory-group/open-comm-dev-models > > Original proposal from Evan Leibovitch of Linux Professional Institute: > > > https://opensource.ieee.org/community-advisory-group/open-comm-dev-models... > > == Inclusive Naming Initiative > > I jumped into this project partially out of work I have been doing inside > Red Hat for the last few years with an internal working group focused on > language. The opportunity I saw for the Open Source Way guidebook and > community of practice is having a direct connection with the Inclusive > Naming Initiative (INI) to help community managers deal with the often > difficult situations these types of changes. > > The INI has fast become the central place where a number of companies are > collaborating on a common set of non-inclusive terms and words used in IT, > and processes for replacing them in open source projects. For example, this > includes defining a set of replacement terms to use for where > "master/slave" is used in IT. By collaborating across many organizations > such as the Akamai, BMC, Cisco, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, IBM, > Linux Foundation, Red Hat, SDDI, Splunk, and VMWare > > 1. List of words/terms and replacements > > This is the nerdy word-person work stream that attracted me. The group is > collating initial lists from everyone's contributions toward making the > first release of a list of terms/words with replacements. This effort > includes defining the criteria for adding a word or term to the list, and > other related parts of the process. > > https://github.com/inclusivenaming/org/tree/main/ws-language > > https://github.com/inclusivenaming/org/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+labe... > > 2. Helping open source projects use the INI output > > This work stream is focused on tools and processes to help open source > projects wanting to make changes to the words and terms in their own > projects. > > For the Open Source Way, this is the other side of the pipeline we would > establish into our project. For example, if we want to pull the latest list > of terms and replacement recommendations as an appendix of the future > versions of the guidebook. It is also the tooling and interfaces we'd be > recommending to OSW readers. > > It is also an opportunity to see the intersection between this work > stream and the recommendations and practices from the OSW guidebook. This > work stream is going to produce documentation, for example, that might be > informed by existing OSW materials. > > = Needs attention > > == Governance > > I have a task to draft up a proposed year-one governance. I think I'm > stuck because I don't know what model all of us want. > > Any input here would help, just a seed to get started. > > We have open questions about processes, the 2.1 release, and so forth. We > should make these decisions as a group within a new governance. > > == 2.1 version > > We have some chapters in progress, others proposed but no one assigned, > and no roadmap or schedule for the 2.1 release. > > Is anyone interested in being the release leader to wrangle that version? > > If someone takes that role, it will free me up to do some writing, as > well as starting on the lexicon work. > > == Printed books > > This idea and request has come up a few times. We should do this! > > A few of us have been in side discussions with a design intern at Red Hat > around some book cover ideas. We hope to bring those discussions to this > list soon. > > Our friends in the Open Org use Lulu for print on demand, and I'm in > favor of that approach but haven't done much research otherwise. One of the > reasons they use Lulu is it's the only print on demand publisher that makes > it easy to charge $0 for a work (just print and shipping costs.) That makes > it easier to work with through Red Hat, who could handle the business > vendor relationship for us. > > == Meetups > > As another aspect of our community of practice, we discussed having > regular (monthly?) meetups to hear from a presenter on a topic around > community management, and to discuss practices in general. > > Who would like to work with me on scheduling and publicizing these? > > == Video interviews > > One of the ideas to start up after the release is a series of interviews > with people across the open source ecosystem, to generate stories for the > guidebook and our wider story repository. > > The idea, as suggested by Shaun McCance, is to interview people who may > not have time to write for the guidebook. Ideally they have read some or > all of the guidebook, and then share some stories from their own > experiences that relate to the principles and practices in the guidebook. > > Those videos can be edited into content for our use, and in particular > the stories can be written out, edited, and tagged for the practices they > are associated with. Then those stories can be available to integrate in > future versions of the guidebook while adding to our ongoing pool of > stories that tell the why of the open source way. > > ------------------------ > > And that brings us to the end of my first Open Source Way community > manager report! > > Kind regards, > > - Karsten > -- > Karsten Wade [he/him/his] | Senior Community Architect | @quaid > Red Hat Open Source Program Office (OSPO) : @redhatopen > The Open Source Way : https://theopensourceway.org > Operate First : https://operate-first.cloud > -- Karsten Wade [he/him/his] | Senior Community Architect | @quaid Red Hat Open Source Program Office (OSPO) : @redhatopen The Open Source Way : https://theopensourceway.org Operate First : https://operate-first.cloud _______________________________________________ Contrib mailing list -- contrib(a)theopensourceway.org To unsubscribe send an email to contrib-leave(a)theopensourceway.org