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Karsten Wade, CentOS Engineering Manager, Red Hat Open Source and
Standards
kwade@redhat.com @quaid

Since 2000 Karsten has been teaching and living the open source way. As a member of Red Hat's Open Source and Standards team, he helps with community activities in projects Red Hat is involved in. As a 19 year IT industry veteran, Karsten has worked as an IS manager, professional services consultant, technical writer, and community advocate. As of 2013, Karsten has been working on the CentOS Project as a new Board member, Red Hat liaison on the Board, and engineering team manager.
"How to teach about the open source way"


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The methods for making free/libre open source software in an open community are fairly well understood, with several very good books and training on the subject. However, learning how to apply those principles beyond software development is still a new area of thinking. Some domains are not able to imagine how to apply radical transparency to their traditionally secretive ways. Other domains are eager to  embrace the free, open, transparent methods and have been opening new territory for several years. Most are in-between, still struggling to understand how the finer details work in real practice.

In this presentation, you will learn about the handbook for applying these principles beyond software, called The Open Source Way - http://theopensourceway.org. This community-developed book is open for contribution, freely available under a Creative Commons license, and full of prinicples explaining what, how, and why each principle works.

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The methods for making free/libre open source software in an open community are fairly well understood, with several very good books and training on the subject. However, learning how to apply those principles beyond software development is still a new area of thinking. Some domains are not able to imagine how sto apply radical transparency to their traditionally secretive ways. Other domains are eager to  embrace the free, open, transparent methods and have been opening new territory for several years. Most are in-between, still struggling to understand how the finer details work in real practice.

In this presentation, you will learn about the handbook for applying these principles beyond software, called The Open Source Way - http://theopensourceway.org. This community-developed book is open for contribution, freely available under a Creative Commons license, and full of prinicples explaining what, how, and why each principle works.

The handbook is an always-in-progress tool that is designed and written by the very people who use and learn from it. It stands on the shoulders of all the works that have gone before, distilling down to a reasonably sized handbook the kind of material found in larger, more comprehensive works such as Producing Open Source Software.