A guide on setting up Microsoft Teams for free to manage and connect a tech user group, covering features and step-by-step setup.
A guide to becoming a successful open-source project maintainer, focusing on soft skills, community management, and sustainable practices.
A GitHub community leader shares 10 key lessons on building and moderating healthy online communities, based on three years of platform trust and safety work.
A GitHub product lead shares resolutions for supporting open source communities, focusing on shared responsibility and maintainer etiquette.
An open letter to the Linux Foundation criticizing its public handling of a Code of Conduct case involving a conference attendee.
GitHub's approach to helping open source maintainers build and scale safe, welcoming communities around their code.
A guide for open source maintainers on how to responsibly abandon a project, comparing the 'fork it' and 'hand-off' approaches.
A developer's recap of the 2017 OpenStack Summit in Boston, discussing event changes, community dispersion, and project impacts.
A PHP meetup organizer shares practical tips and lessons learned from running a local tech community group for four years.
A guide for open source maintainers on how to gracefully close or reject unwanted pull requests and patch submissions.
A software engineer announces his departure from Chef Software after facing severe online harassment and death threats within the Chef community.
An article discussing how slow response times and ignored pull requests create a hostile environment for new open source contributors.
Oracle terminates its official Support Blog and social media presence, silencing direct community communication about support issues.
A response to critiques of the 'benevolent dictator' governance model in open source, using Linux and Debian as examples.
