How to Run a Whole Community Sprint
Most open source project sprints are focused on code contribution. While this makes some sense---open source software is, after all, *software*---it's also a little narrow-minded.
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Governance Questionnaire
Read more → More from Relational Tech →It can be helpful for communities to take stock of their existing governance now and again, especially if they're facing some kind of major challenge, opportunity, or transition.
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Visibility Spectrum Exercise
Read more → More from Relational Tech →Some work within a software project is celebrated. Designing and building a new project from scratch, or adding big features to an existing project, is enjoyable and often prestigious work.
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Roadmaps, Surveys, and Community-Led Software Development
Read more → More from Parsons Blog →Every progressive group ought to ask themselves occasionally, "Who are we fighting for? And how do we know what their needs really are?" Self critique, reflection, and open dialogue are vital tactics for organizers, and our work as maintainers of Parsons is no different.
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A Guide to Reading API Documentation
Read more → More from Parsons Blog →A lot of progressive data work involves moving data into and out of third-party tools. While Parsons aims to make that easier, it's still pretty hard. One skill that's really helpful is getting comfortable reading documentation, and in particular, API documentation. So: this is a primer on how to read API docs.
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Stakeholder Decision-Making in the Heart of Hierarchy
Read more → More from Rethinking Power →"Nothing about us without us!" is a rallying cry, a catch-phrase with a clear moral imperative: that those impacted by a decision should be involved in making the decision.
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All About Authentication
Read more → More from Parsons Blog →Welcome to the authentication guide for the Parsons project! It has three parts:
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Introduction to Python Programming Guide
Read more → More from Parsons Blog →Welcome to our Intro to Python Programming guide! It is designed for people without much experience in either programming generally or using Python specifically.
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Software Engineering Tips & Tricks
Read more → More from Parsons Blog →Command line interfaces let you do a lot of different things on your computer, including installing and running programs and navigating the directory structure of your computer.
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Alinsky on doubt, compromise, and the letter of the law
Read more → More from Out of Many →I detest and fear dogma. I know that all revolutions must have ideologies to spur them on. That in the heat of conflict these ideologies tend to be smelted into rigid dogmas claiming exclusive possession of the truth, and the keys to paradise, is tragic. Dogma is the enemy of human freedom. Dogma must be watched for and apprehended at every turn and twist of the revolutionary movement. The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who believe with complete certainty that they possess the right are dark inside and darken the world outside with cruelty, pain, and injustice. Those who enshrine the poor of Have-Nots are as guilty as other dogmatists and just as dangerous. To diminish the danger that ideology will deteriorate into dogma, and to protect the free, open, questing, and creative mind of man, as well as to allow for change, no ideology should be more specific than that of America’s founding fathers: ‘For the general welfare’. (p. 4)
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Openly structured communities
Read more → More from Duly Noted →If someone asks me, “What is open source software?”, I have an obvious answer: “Software that is licensed as open source and makes its source code available for users to review, modify and share.” Ditto “What is open science?”, to which I’d respond: “Science that is made available to review by anybody and available to reproduce by anyone with the necessary skills and equipment.”
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When Thing Z is problematic
Read more → More from Duly Noted →I have seen this argument happen over and over again, especially in progressive spaces.
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Moving On
Read more → More from OpenHatch blog →Back in February 2013, I ran my first Open Source Comes to Campus event. It was a snowy day with a small but enthusiastic turnout. At one point during the workshop at the end of the day, a student I was pairing with said something which has stuck with me ever since: "Today has been very empowering for me regarding my computer and the ways I can manipulate it."
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A Semester of Events
Read more → More from OpenHatch blog →## (17 of them!) Last fall, we ran seventeen events at campuses around the country, reaching hundreds of students and making abundant contributions and connections. Here's a whirlwind tour of our semester:
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List
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →Things I've accomplished recently, and future plans, offered up as justification for the lack of a "real" post:
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When everything looks like a nail
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →I've long known the adage "When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail" but I've only recently come to appreciate its truth.
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Summer Internships for Open Source Enthusiasts
Read more → More from OpenHatch blog →It's the heart of internship application season, and we want to spread the word about opportunities to contribute to open source this summer. The following list of internships are all funded, open to (though not always limited to) students, and taking place over the summer.
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Goals for Open Source Comes to Campus in 2014
Read more → More from OpenHatch blog →At OpenHatch we have big dreams. One of them? Keeping better track of our dreams.
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Open Projects - Wikipedia Project Medicine
Read more → More from Open Science Collaboration Blog →*This article is the first in a series highlighting open science projects around the community. You can read the interview this article was based on: edited for clarity, unedited.*
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Ready, Set, Contribute: a handbook for preparing your open source project for events
Read more → More from OpenHatch blog →Today, we're releasing a handbook to help open source projects prepare themselves for events.
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Open Source Comes to Campus
Read more → More from OpenHatch blog →A little less than a year ago, I was asked to direct OpenHatch's Open Source Comes to Campus event series. Open Source Comes to Campus is a workshop designed to introduce college students to open source, to teach them how to use tools like version control and issue trackers, and to guide them through making their first contributions. When I joined, OpenHatch was averaging two events a year. I was asked, hopefully, if I could run seven events in 2013.
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Five Women Bringing Open Source to Campus – for Ada Lovelace Day 2013
Read more → More from OpenHatch blog →For Ada Lovelace Day this year, we decided to profile some of the women who have helped us organize and run our Open Source Comes to Campus events. The five women below are just a few of the dozens of amazing hosts and mentors we've had the honor of working with.
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Hacking the hackathon
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →Friends, romans, civic tech enthusiasts, lend me your eyeballs. I come to bury hackathons, not to praise them.
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OpenHatch at Transparency Camp on May 4-5, celebrating open government
Read more → More from OpenHatch blog →TransparencyCamp is a yearly unconference to celebrate, and work toward, government transparency. It's run by the Sunlight Foundation, and we're honored to be a sponsor! Asheesh Laroia and I will be attending, and Sunlight Foundation has set aside a special area to help open government-oriented open source projects build stronger communities.
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My life in links
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →A round up of recent goings on:
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Open Data Day
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →This Saturday, February 23rd, is Open Data Day, "a gathering of citizens in cities around the world to write applications, liberate data, create visualizations and publish analyses using open public data to show support for and encourage the adoption open data policies by the world's local, regional and national governments."
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Busybody
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →I've been a bit busier than usual the last few weeks. Missed last week's post. More beer for everyone! Here's a list of things I've done between my last post and now. (Why yes, this is a pretense for skipping another week. Glad you asked.)
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Guest Post
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →My post for the week is aaaaaaaall the way over at the Sunlight Foundation blog.