Amye Scavarda

143 points

United States

I'm a community lead at Red Hat! I'm a writer! I'm a technologist! I live in Portland, OR and I'm surrounded by open source and open source communities. Sometimes I write about of these things!

Open Minded Author

Authored Content

A plan for rebooting an open source project

Here's a simple plan to get your project back on the right path.

Get more contributors to your project with better documentation

It is not uncommon to have a cycle of news around communities being unfriendly to women or newcomers or people who aren't already there. By 'news' I mean someone posts…

We all need to take it offline now and then

We're at a particularly interesting time in technology, the Internet, the open source movements, and what accessibility means. We get the ability to be a lot of different…

Contributed Content

4 ways to open up your project's infrastructure

Learn how to build a supporting infrastructure that invites people to contribute.

Authored Comments

amye

28 Feb 2014

Get more contributors to your project with better documentation

That is awesome!
I'm glad you found it helpful!

amye

3 Dec 2013

We all need to take it offline now and then

That would be pretty amazing. I struggle with prioritizing the 'Urgent' over the 'Important', which means that email will take hold over some really critical things that will be missed if they're not done.

I tend to take a few minutes after initial email + coffee to remember 'how to be a person', but that doesn't fix it much.
Maybe that's the next post!