Combating Apathy in [Free and Open Source] Communities — Part 3
This article is a part of a three part series, if you haven’t read the first part and second part, you really should. How do we address this problem? Who does it? In other words, how do small to medium communities battle Apathy? In all honesty, I don’t have the answer for this question. If [...]
In: Community, Conferences, Fedora, Guru, LUGs, Life, Networking, Passion, Tech · Tagged with: 2010, apathy, Community, june, utos, UTOSC
Agile Roots: Day 1
As a person who runs a conference and community events in Utah, I have to first give a hand to the organizers of Agile Roots. They have done an amazing job with the venue, schedule, organization, marketing and all of the other difficult things required to make a great conference. A big thumbs up from [...]
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Heading to Agile Roots
Agile infrastructure and management has been in my purview for some time now. While I’ve never attended the Velocity conference put on by O’Reilly every year, I have been a regular attendee to VeloSLC in months past. One of the coolest things to attend has arrived here in Salt Lake City. That’s Agile Roots next [...]
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Combating Apathy in [Free and Open Source] Communities — Part 2
This article is a part of a three part series, if you haven’t read the first part, you really should. Why don’t more people actually volunteer 2-3 hours per month? One word, Apathy. Yes, apathy. I believe apathy is what kills communities around the globe. They don’t have to be any specific type of community, [...]
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Combating Apathy: How to Keep a [Free and Open Source] Community Alive
This June will mark the fourth anniversary of the creation of the Utah Open Source Foundation. In October, we will be hosting approximately 500 attendees at the fourth annual Utah Open Source Conference. What started out as a simple idea in my backyard in Springville, Utah has blossomed into something much larger, a community of [...]
In: Community, Fedora, Guru, LUGs, Life, Passion, Tech · Tagged with: 2010, apathy, Community, june, utos, UTOSC
SELF: Day 0-0.5
Lovely flight in First Class with Delta. There was a bit of weather in Atlanta so we ended up looping around for about 30 extra minutes. Not too bad, really. Got the car (thanks SELF organizers for picking up that tab) and drove up to Clemson, was very very long drive! Had to stop for [...]
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