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Social Currency as a tool for community managers
I see a world of games, competitions, fun to be added to online communities using social currency platforms. Social currency is shared information that encourages further social encounters. It’s not a...
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Measuring code contributions to Openstack
Following the rule “you cannot improve what you cannot measure” I started putting together a system to measure engagement in OpenStack community. There are lots of factors to take into account for...
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Measuring Community Growth
The discussion held a few weeks ago at Community Leadership Summit around how to ‘measure’ open source projects were very interesting. There was even a keynote by David Eaves during OSCON about the...
View ArticleTracking gender diversity in the OpenStack developer community
The OpenStack Foundation has always tried to increase genders diversity in our community: we joined the Outreach Program for Women, established clear policies for our summits and in general we’ve been...
View ArticleTowards a Directory for all OpenStack People
One of the challenges at large projects like OpenStack is to know people, understand who is doing what, how to reach out to them. There are a lot of different classes of people involved in OpenStack:...
View ArticleSocial Currency as a tool for community managers
I see a world of games, competitions, fun to be added to online communities using social currency platforms. Social currency is shared information that encourages further social encounters. It’s not a...
View ArticleMeasuring code contributions to Openstack
Following the rule “you cannot improve what you cannot measure” I started putting together a system to measure engagement in OpenStack community. There are lots of factors to take into account for...
View ArticleMeasuring Community Growth
The discussion held a few weeks ago at Community Leadership Summit around how to ‘measure’ open source projects were very interesting. There was even a keynote by David Eaves during OSCON about the...
View ArticleTracking gender diversity in the OpenStack developer community
The OpenStack Foundation has always tried to increase genders diversity in our community: we joined the Outreach Program for Women, established clear policies for our summits and in general we’ve been...
View ArticleTowards a Directory for all OpenStack People
One of the challenges at large projects like OpenStack is to know people, understand who is doing what, how to reach out to them. There are a lot of different classes of people involved in OpenStack:...
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Signs that Twitter is dying
I was reviewing the stats of the social media accounts we use at the Open Source Initiative, Twitter and LinkedIn. To be precise, I was reviewing the only metrics we have, since we have no data from...
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