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Some thoughts on open source
Open source communities let your skills shine, help you discover new passion, enable you to fight weakness, can take your fear from new and unknown things and provide a safe place to explore your undiscovered talent.
Some thoughts on open source
One of the great gifts of being active in an open source community is the incredible amount of things you can learn from skilled talents around the world. Shared knowledge is the basis for every project’s success.
Some thoughts on open source
A good conference is like a concert. You plan months ahead, venue might be far away, hotels expensive and travel burdensome. When the first tune is heard, all stress is gone. To be a success, it needs both the stage performers and background technicians, even more the audience.
Some thoughts on open source
Open source communities are like popcorn when watching movies.
They might take a while to pop up, are sometimes salty and sometimes sweet, but both is tasty and it’s simply not the same without.
Some thoughts on open source
Contributing to an open source community can be like composing a song. There are several voices and instruments that need to be arranged on one sheet, resulting in a wonderful tune.
Some thoughts on open source
An apartment is just a physical place. It eventually becomes home when people breathe, love, discuss, argue, celebrate and share it. In the same way, an open source project eventually becomes a true community when its contributors fill it with passion and joy.
Some thoughts on open source
Open source communities can be like a dandelion.
If there are many seeds that gather around a common root, spread and share them, so they eventually will shine in a beautiful colour everywhere.
Wie du in einem Ameisenhaufen überlebst, ohne dabei selbst unter die Erde zu kommen
Engagement im Sport, in der Kunst, im sozialen Bereich oder auch für freie und Open Source Software ist immer auch eine gemeinschaftliche Erfahrung. Gemeinschaft, das wird neudeutsch mit Community umschrieben und auch gerne mal mit einem Ameisenhaufen verglichen, denn viele verschiedene Akteure laufen scheinbar in alle möglichen Richtungen. Oft gibt es zur besseren Koordination eine eigene Organisation, die nicht nur dabei hilft, Spenden anzunehmen und Verträge abzuschließen, sondern auch Statuten und Regeln erarbeitet, die den Idealen aller Mitwirkenden Ausdruck verleihen und den Geist des gemeinsam Gewollten transportieren.
Innerhalb dieser Communities gibt es verschiedene Rollen. Manche als formales Amt mit regelmäßigen Neuwahlen, wie beispielsweise Vorstand und Aufsichtsrat, andere innerhalb eher dynamisch entstehender Gruppen wie Marketing oder Infrastruktur, die einer häufigeren Änderung unterliegen können. In beiden Fällen gibt es erfahrene und motivierte Community-Mitglieder, die “den Hut aufhaben” und ein Thema vorantreiben.
My take on what free and open source communities are about: friendship
I’ve posted this five years ago on social media, but it didn’t lose any of its relevance: Being active in a free software project is about much more than just code.
Why free software and the art of cooking have more in common than you may think
What’s probably the most stupid idea to promote the principles of free software without actually coding? Well, I might have a proposal for you: Let’s do some Open Source Cooking! We’ve in fact been doing that in Munich for the past eight years already and the idea behind it is rather trivial: “Why don’t we cook together with many others – like, 30 people?!”
The name Open Source Cooking has been used initially because the idea was grown during our regular Open Source Meetings. However, soon we realized that cooking and free software have actually much more in common than it looks like in first place! So let me make you hungry for more…
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