Materials from OSCON 2006 Presentation

Business and Open Source Partnering

The tutorial slides as PDF

IEEE Computer on Assessing Community Health

Crowston, K. and Howison, J. (2006). Assessing the health of open source communities. IEEE Computer, 39(5):89–91.

"How to have a successful Open Source project"

Senyard, A. and Michlmayr, M. (2004). How to have a successful free software project. In Proceedings of the 11th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, pages 84–91, Busan, Korea. IEEE Computer Society.

-Ofun Optimizing for Fun

See link below too, but in PDF in case it disappears. I don't endorse everything in this piece, but it's certainly a fresh approach to project organization.

Optimizing for fun

 

"How to ask questions the smart way"

The number one resource I would recommend for those who are not open source savvy but who want to be. Again, link below, PDF for posterity.

How to ask questions the smart way

 

The Open Business Readiness Rating Project

A more formalized methodology for assessing open source software, includes an attempt to assess the community strength.

Discussion and use of the Tutorial at Microsoft

Sara Ford, tasked with the intriguing task of helping Microsoft teams to open source some of their work, has posted a video of her presenting to her team, based in part on this tutorial. There's some discussion over there too. Great to see ongoing discussion.