Building Hospitable Open Source Communities (Video)

This is an 11 minute excerpt from an hour-long video, contributed by long-time Slashdot user Erik Möller. This video is the moving picture equivalent of the typical Slashdot summary of a text article, complete with a link to the main article, which in this case is a video (over an hour long) at PassionateVoices.org. Erik's interviewee, Sumana Harihareswara, is also a long-time Slashdot reader who claims (admits?) that she met her husband through a Slashdot link, albeit indirectly. She's spent most of the past decade working with open source, much of it as a community leader. If you are in a leadership role in an open source community or plan to lead one someday, you may want to listen to the complete interview. Sumana has many useful things to say about how open source communities should -- and shouldn't -- be run.

Comments

Thanks, but life is too short.

[fustakrakich]

I'll wait for the condensed Reader's Digest version

Re:Thanks, but life is too short.

[antiperimetaparalogo]

I'll wait for the condensed Reader's Digest version

"blah, blah, blah ... i am a girl so i will talk about myself ... blah, blah, blah ... i am a girl that can say stupid girly stuff about "empowering diverse people" ... blah, blah, blah ... i am a girl and because i don't have a penis i hate boys ... blah, blah, blah ... i am a girl so don't you dare to hurt my feelings ... blah, blah, blah"

Slashdot videos suck!

[Anonymous Coward]

Does anyone at Dice realize how much the community, in general, hates the stupid videos? How you cannot watch them in an office scenario, how you cannot get them in offline mode, how you cannot search the transcripts for information?

Re:Slashdot videos suck!

[Eloquence]

Videos/podcasts and similar formats are definitely not for every setting, but they do allow you to get to know a person a bit better than a simple transcript does. In a video, you can see a person's facial expressions, you can hear emphasis, and you may be able to make more of an emotional connection. For a podcast, you can listen in the background, during your commute, etc. Each format has its advantages/disadvantages.

I agree a transcript would be awesome though; sorry that I've not gotten around to that yet (I do these in my spare time and suggested to Roblimo that he might want to run a shorter version). If you want to help, I've set up an Amara import here. In general, Passionate Voices is a community project (the videos are under CC-0, i.e. free to reuse), and help is always welcome, including with doing itnerviews.

Re:Slashdot videos suck!

[Darinbob]

But we don't want to get to know the person better. This is about news and information, not warm fuzzy feelings. I could read a reasonable summary in 20 seconds and move on, without every worry about what the writer looked like or what the facial expressions were while writing.

This video lost me as "safe spaces"

[Anonymous Coward]

A "safe space" is basically politically correct bigotry and SJW code for "we want segregation and preferential treatment for certain groups."

If some special snowflake is offended at something, then it's up to that special snowflake to deal with their feels on their own terms, not for the rest of the online community to bend to their demands for special treatment because something "triggered" them.

Re:Anon Coward (anti)SJW

[Anonymous Coward]

Because that is why it was posted. It is an inflammatory diatribe by a SJW. Check out her resume. Never worked long than 1 year at any place. Typical SJW who doesn't want to "do", just "talk".

Meanwhile women actually IN the field...

[Shadow of Eternity]

are busy writing articles calling bullshit on non-coders like Sumana who do nothing but insult and degrade women by talking about how feckless and vulnerable they are.