Brian Proffitt

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Cary, NC

Brian Proffitt is Manager, Community Insights within Red Hat's Open Source Program Office, focusing on content generation, community metrics, and special projects. Brian's experience with community management includes knowledge of community onboarding, community health, and business alignment. Prior to joining Red Hat in 2014, he was a technology journalist with a focus on Linux and open source, and the author of 22 consumer technology books.

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5 key insights for open source project sustainability in 2022

New research unveils how corporate open source participation has brought renewed attention to community health.

Best practices for guiding new coders

As the new year progresses, many free and open source projects are turning their attention to various formalized mentoring programs, such as Mozilla's Winter of Security…

How to record screencasts with recordMyDesktop

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3 steps to writing an open source project case study

Case studies about open source project participants and users are a great way to showcase your project and how it works in the real world. Such studies will highlight…

Disaster recovery planning lessons from Waffle House

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How to explain open source to the in-laws

Reflecting back over the holiday break, I would have to say that overall, it was pretty mellow. (This is not always a given when family gatherings are part of the equation.)…