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= Community Management =

This is a rough sketch of ideas on guidelines for managing the Sage user and developer community.


== Cultivating an open source community ==

 1. [[http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct | Ubuntu Code of Conduct]]

 1. [[http://www.artofcommunityonline.org | Art Of Community]] by Jono Bacon.
 
 1. [[http://www.theopensourceway.org/book/ | The Open Source Way: Creating and nurturing communities of contributors]]

 1. [[http://www.producingoss.com | Producing Open Source Software]] by Karl Fogel.

 1. [[https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-community | Successful open source communities]] by Jeffrey M. Osier-Mixon.
 
 1. [[http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2009/07/22/barriers-to-community-growth | Barriers to community growth]] by Dave Neary.
 
 1. [[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4216011961522818645# | How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People (And You Can Too)]] --- in the Google Tech Talks series.
 
 1. [[http://www.cyrius.com/publications/michlmayr-community_management.pdf | Community Management in Open Source Projects]] by Martin Michlmayr.
 
 1. [[http://www.cyrius.com/publications | Managing Volunteer Activity in Free Software Projects]] by Martin Michlmayr.

 1. [[http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2009/01/building-community-around-your-foss.html | Building a community around your F/OSS project]] by Aaron J. Seigo

 1. [[http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate | Get Involved]] from Ubuntu


== Jono Bacon's articles ==

 1. [[http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/04/the_increasing_importance_of_c.html | The Increasing Importance of Community]]

 1. [[http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/01/building_up_the_advocacy_commu.html | Building up the Advocacy Community]]

 1. [[http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/01/the_reality_of_advocacy.html | The Reality of Advocacy]]

 1. [[http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2005/09/hindsight_is_always_2020.html | Hindsight is Always 20/20]]

 1. [[http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2004/05/the_system_man.html | The system, man]]

 1. [[http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2004/04/advocating_honesty.html | Advocating honesty]]


== Meritocracy ==

On meritocracy within an open source project:

 1. [[http://phpadvent.org/2008/php-meritocracy-by-andrei-zmievski | PHP Meritocracy]] by Andrei Zmievski.
 
 1. [[http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html | How the ASF works]] from the Apache Software Foundation.
 
 1. [[http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/development_process.php | Eclipse Development Process]] from The Eclipse Foundation.
 
 1. [[http://geekfeminism.org/2009/11/29/questioning-the-merit-of-meritocracy | Questioning the merit of meritocracy]] by Kirrily Robert.


== Open source development ==
 
Some notes on open source development and the importance of having mentors:

 1. [[http://webchick.net/embrace-the-chaos | A tale of two developers]] by Angie Byron.
 
 1. [[http://denise.dreamwidth.org/23600.html | Teaching People to Fish]]
 

== Promoting open source projects ==

Strategies for promoting an open source project:

 1. [[http://www.socmedia101.com/2009/11/promoting-open-source-through-social-media | Promoting Open Source Through Social Media]] by Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier.

 1. [[attachment:e8story-press-release-maths.pdf|The E_8 News Story]], by David W. Farmer and Sally Koutsoliotas