2025-07-16 –, Terrace 2A
Open-source communities are often distributed around the world which presents a challenge to fostering effective communication and consensus building among its members. As the project and community grows, the challenges around facilitating effective communication only become more difficult.
Thankfully, there are a myriad of tools and methodologies available to deal with these challenges. During this talk, I will cover three ways both large and small open source communities can tackle these communication issues: project chats and message boards, regular project meetings and project enhancement proposals.
To learn more about these tools in practice, we'll follow a fiction character through his journey of creating and maintaining an open-source project 😺 🐈 😺 🐈 😺
Beginner
Born in the U.S. but now an aspiring German citizen, I am Python programmer who has been writing all kinds of code over the last 15 years. I've never formally studied computer science because I was always way more interested in the social sciences (humans > computers). I'm currently based in Berlin where I work for Anaconda maintaining the conda project. In my free time, you will see me either skateboarding, playing guitar, weight lifting or taking photos of the city and nature.