At last month’s OSCON, I caught Kirrily Robert’s keynote on “Standing Out in the Crowd” in the open-source environment. Her speech discussed how welcoming everyone who comes willing to learn and work hard has built a stronger community of contributors at Dreamwidth, an open source, non-profit organization I have to admit I’d never heard [...]
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Diversity as a Community-Building Tool?
Posted in Mozilla on August 11, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Lawyers as a Community?
Posted in Mozilla on July 9, 2009 | 15 Comments »
I hope you caught the great article that appeared in Business Week about the awesome group of contributors that Mozilla has. If not, you can check it out here: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2009/tc2009071_384108_page_2.htm.
As a new hire in Mozilla’s legal group, I’ve been contemplating whether we could follow the lead of the FOSS development community and establish [...]
