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The Apache community not only managed to survive and grow, while many other open source communities faced troubles or even disappeared, but furthermore Apache has become a real institution and is well-known and respected within the IT area. As a community brand, Apache offers many of the benefits described above. Community members do not only respond with high loyalty towards the brand, but furthermore serve as passionate brand evangelists.

Community is vital to an open source project. An active and supportive community is the heart of the project. However, having an open source licence is not enough to bring users and developers to your project and build a community. This document looks at

In a normal proprietary software company this means you've disqualified someone that isn't a customer in the pipeline, in the open source corporate world, I believe they sit in a different process. Instead of a manufacturing metaphor (pipelines) we need a more organic social metaphor to track success and growth of the community. Lead generation is a measure of community engagement. You want to grow your community. Customers will self-qualify.

The Ubuntu UK podcast is presented by members of the United Kingdom's Ubuntu Linux community. We aim is to provide current, topical information about, and for, Ubuntu Linux users the world over. We cover all aspects of Ubuntu Linux and Free Software and appeal to everyone from the newest user to the oldest coder, from the command line to the latest GUI. Because the show is produced the Ubuntu UK community, the podcast is covered by the Ubuntu Code of Conduct and will therefore be suitable for all. Some Rights Reserved All contents of this site (including audio) are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.

A governance model describes the roles project participants can take, and the process for decision making within the project. In addition it describes processes for communicating and sharing within the project team and community. It is the governance mode

Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Technical Documentation, industry expert Anne Gentle's new book, brings the tools of the Social Web to technical documentation. She looks at the most important Web 2.0 tools, including blogs, wikis, micro-blo

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This document compares the community source and open source development models, and discusses their suitability for projects involving Higher Education consortia.

Traditionally software is produced and distributed following either closed source or open source developments models. Community source is a development model that attempts to find a middle way between the two paths by borrowing elements from both. Communi

"No amount of general 'Just jump in, please join us!' shouting will work if the potential contributors you're trying to reach don't think that any such invitation could possibly be directed towards them.

This discussion and networking space has been set up by Public Sector Forums to share information and ideas on using open source software and open standards in government. This is a community site and not supported or funded in any way by the UK Governmen

Indispensable advice about how to deal with poisonous people in open source communities.

while IT operations is the crux of making sales in open source, it might well be that open-source companies should focus on community development and avoid making too much money so that they can maintain a healthy valuation.

Perhaps the most commonly cited example of a benevolent dictator model is the Linux Kernel, under the direct decision making leadership of Linus Torvalds. The job of benevolent dictator is not an easy one. It requires diplomacy and community building skil

There are many aspects unique to open source, but when it comes to enterprise IT, open source should be treated no different to any other business software.

Europe leads the world in open source software adoption and development. Open source solutions have greater market share in Europe than the rest of the world, both on the server and the desktop, and more open source developers live in Europe than on any o

There are many aspects unique to open source, but when it comes to enterprise IT, open source should be treated no different to any other business software.

How do sponsored open source communities differ from their autonomous counterparts?

The new JISC strategy for 2010-2012 comes amid serious economic recession in the UK and abroad, and in a period of unprecedented change in communication and information technologies. JISC will therefore seek to continue seeding capability and collaborative working in the sector whilst at the same time enable students, researchers and teachers to thrive and excel in a digitally enabled world and equip universities and colleges with new ways of working faster and better than the competition.

A "serious" social networking tool. EMail is still the main communication mechanism, but with linkedin it is augmented with structured networking tools.