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.
Materials from OSCON 2006 Presentation -Ofun Optimizing for Fun
Optimizing for fun
Useful discussion, I don't endorse everything in this piece, but it's certainly a fresh approach to project organization. Also in PDF
"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.
Materials from OSCON 2006 Presentation 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.
Materials from OSCON 2006 Presentation 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.
