Talks
Slides (and recordings) from some of the talks I've given over the years. Have a suggestion? I'd love to hear it.
Community management
- A community of communities: Empowering maintainers to grow communities around their code
- It takes a digital village: An analytical-ish look at what grows strong communities on GitHub.com
- Growing open source communities on GitHub around your WordPress plugin or theme
Collaboration and open source
- Fostering a culture of collaboration
- Closed source (just) a few things
- Best practices for open source in government
- Open source licensing by the numbers
- Open source demystified: from command-line to community engagement (source)
- Open collaboration: why you should give open source a second look
Software development and workflows
- How to work like an open source project, regardless of what you do
- How GitHub works like an open source project
- Three simple rules for building APIs
- Code, Test, Deploy: How to :ship: software like a startup
- Rapid development, testing, and deployment the open source way
Open government
- What government can learn from open source (slides)
- Software developer as civic service
- The revolution will be forked: how open collaboration is reimagining the way government works (source)
- Make Government better together: Moving from open government to collaborative government (source)
Law and policy
- Open source software licensing: empowering others to use your code (source)
- Collaborative policy making: how technology is making it easier to work together than alone (source)
- Project open data: a case study in collaborative governance (video)
Mapping and GeoJSON
- Open source, open standards, and 50 lines of code: a look behind GitHub's GeoJSON rendering and diffing (source)
- Make maps better together: Collaborative mapping the Open Source Way (video)