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community management

If Bosch can do it, you can do it too!

Steffen Evers (Bosch Software Innovations GmbH)
Kai Hudalla (Robert Bosch GmbH)

In the past 20 years, software has become increasingly important for the successful operation of any kind of business. This trend is expected to continue in the future. At the same time, the amount of open source technologies used in the software industry has increased rapidly.
While closed software development can be considered daily business, active participation in open source communities still poses quite some challenges for companies coming from more traditional industry sectors like automotive and manufacturing.

Experience level: 
Beginner

Welcome to Open Source

Fostering New Contributors In SWT: Lessons In Community Management

Eric Williams (Red Hat, Inc.)
Alexander Kurtakov (Red Hat, Inc.)

Traditionally, a great deal of importance is placed on the value of technical contributions to a project. However, an oft-overlooked aspect of open source development is the community itself, as well as the ability of a project to attract (and maintain) a wide variety of contributors.

This talk will focus on the importance of growing new contributors using real-life lessons, and examples encountered in SWT.

It will begin with non-technical aspects of community management, namely:

Experience level: 
Beginner

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