Proposal title:

How to follow the open source way

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Have you ever tried to conduct a community based on the principles of
the open source software movement? Call this "the open source way."

Have you ever been stuck trying to understand, explain, or convince
others about the open source way?

This session introdues a handbook filled with specific principles,
teaches how to follow them, and offers methods to pass that teaching
on to others.

Topics:  Business, Community, Education, Government, Healthcare

Session type: 40 min. presentation

Abstract:

Sometimes one of the hardest things we do is sticking to all the
myriad principles that define the open source way. How can we even
remember them all?

Aside from just keeping yourself following good open source practices,
you have to help all the other people too: fellow collaborators, other
contributors, your team at work, the Dean of your college, your
product manager, the CTO, and so forth. How do you get them
understanding and following the open source way?

You've seen and heard about the success of these methods, you hear
that people are applying them to everything from designing prosthetics
to dresses. How do you get started?

More than just a software development methodology, the open source way
is a method for growing any community. The principles can be applied
to business, education, government, marketing, design, content
creation, and many other domains. They are applied to starting new
businesses and creating entrepreneurial opportunities at very low cost
with very few resources.

This session teaches you about a useful handbook that is actively
created by other community leaders as a canonical location for key
principles, implementation details, and examples of the open source
way.

By the end of the session you'll be able to use this handbook to guide
yourself and others in implementing the open source way in your
project, product, or community.

Tags:

community, the open source way, community of practice, leadership, how-to,