Presented by:

Rikki Endsley

from Opensource.com

Rikki Endsley is a community manager and editor for Opensource.com, and a 2016 recipient of an O’Reilly Open Source Award. In the past, she worked as a community evangelist on the Open Source and Standards team at Red Hat; freelance tech journalist; community manager for the USENIX Association; associate publisher of Linux Pro Magazine, ADMIN, and Ubuntu User; and as the managing editor of Sys Admin magazine and UnixReview.com. Follow her on Twitter: @rikkiends.

In 2016, I adopted my first carnivorous plant, a Venus Fly Trap, which I named Gordon. I quickly discovered that the health of Gordon was closely connected to the environment I provided as much as to his ability to catch the occasional bug and get energy from the sun. In this talk, I'll pull from more than a decade of experience working with open source communities (and a few months of experience keeping Gordon alive) to explain how caring for a Venus Fly Trap is much like caring for a community. Like carnivorous plants, communities can't be left alone to fend for themselves. They need an energy source, healthy environments, pest control, and occasional maintenance. And if you're charged with caring for either a community or carnivorous plant, you'll need back up--someone who can fill in when you're unavailable.

Date:
2016 November 12 - 15:30
Duration:
1 h
Room:
Room 3179
Language:
Track:
Difficulty:
Easy

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  2. Start Time:
    2016 November 12 15:30

    Room:
    Room 3178

  3. Concise GNU Bash: An Introduction to Advanced Usage
  4. Start Time:
    2016 November 12 15:30

    Room:
    Room 3184

  5. OpenStack for Humans
  6. Start Time:
    2016 November 12 15:30

    Room:
    Room 3183

  7. Bare Metal Programming
  8. Start Time:
    2016 November 12 15:30

    Room:
    Room 3180