Gent, Brussels and Fosdem 2012
More pictures from our journey can be found here. My slides from “(Mozilla) communities – agile approach” can be found here – you will need HTML5 powered browser.
Community Management
Community Building, Enchanting, Engagement …
Troll as a marketing asset?
/The Troll Dad/ I was inspired by Lydia‘s talk during FOSDEM to share some thoughts about using trolls as a marketing asset. Define I am sure you know what is a Troll, but anyhow there it is, directly from UD: A dumbass who makes idiotic posts in message boards newsgroups for the sole purpose of … Read more
The future of Java – a community perspective
Ah memories I’ve started my interaction with Java a long time ago – in 1998 (*), when a friend of mine show me thr good ‘ol Borland JBuilder and how to write Swing applications. I was using a very very old computer that I bought a day before that and my first compilation took 30 … Read more
Mozilla Developer Room schedule at Fosdem
We will have more than 28 talks this year’s Mozilla Developer room at FOSDEM. Take a look at the schedule and plan your visit now. It will be a great time, like every year. P.S Let’s say “Merci” to Benoît to taking care about Mozilla’s presence at Fosdem.
(Mozilla) Communities – Agile approach, tools, patterns and metrics.
I will be talking about that at FOSDEM in Mozilla’s room. (*) Abstract: We’re living in hard times right now. Most of the F(L)OSS projects suffers from lack of volunteers especially if they must donate a large amount of time to this project. My talk will show how you can plan better your community how … Read more
Put some Agile into your community
Finding a way to stimulate/encourage your community to do stuff can be a very difficult task. I will show you an Agile-like approach to do that and actually it works pretty well, but remember: Don’t try to control your community, try to manage it. Create the infrastructure Get an account in Trello. Define your basic … Read more