Community-driven development: Getting started in open source software

Get ready to dive into the world of open source software! In this talk, you’ll learn how to leverage the open source community to build a strong network with other professionals working in software.

May 23, 2024 - 5 min read

The open source mindset shift

In this blog post, I share some tips and tricks about the mindset shift that sometimes comes from working in open source to help our new contributors get used to open source culture.

Feb 17, 2023 - 4 min read

The docs are in: making OSS sticky

In this interview for The Docs Are In series, I explain how to make open source sticky.

Jan 27, 2023 - 1 min read

Attracting writers to OSS

In this blog entry, I share a presentation I gave about how to attract more technical writers to your open source project.

Nov 16, 2022 - 11 min read

Where do docs live?

In this lightning talk, I argue that documentation thrives when it is in the same department as product. If that’s not feasible, documentation is at least improved by applying product management strategies.

Feb 22, 2022 - 9 min read

Growing a healthy DevOps community inside Salt Project

This week I presented at SaltConf 21 about how Salt became such a successful open source project. Spoiler alert: the secret was all in its community management!

Nov 6, 2021 - 30 min read