Nicole C. Baratta

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Nicole C. Baratta (Engard) is a Senior Content Strategist at Red Hat. She received her MLIS from Drexel University and her BA from Juniata College. Nicole volunteers as the Director of ChickTech Austin. Nicole is known for many different publications including her books “Library Mashups", "More Library Mashups", and "Practical Open Source Software for Libraries". Nicole can be reached at ncbaratta@gmail.com.

Open Source Sensei People's Choice Award 2013 Moderator's Choice Award 2016 Geek Contributor Club Author Founding Member Open education Wordpress Community Manager

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A short introduction to GitHub

Summary of All Things Open 2015 session with Lee Faus, GitHub 101: An introduction I am on GitHub and have committed the Koha manual to our git repository, but I'm not sure…

Open community, gardeners and food co-op

The new era of community

The new Director of Community at GitHub, Jono Bacon, delivered a keynote at All Things Open this year titled: The new era of community. His talk was largely a call action to…

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Common problems in open source communities (and how to solve them)

That makes me happy :) Glad they're useful.

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How to get designers involved in your software project

I'm a proponent of use the best tool for the job. So if you find an open source tool that works then go for it!! I have a friend who only uses free software for his designs and does amazing things! http://lemasney.com/consulting/graphic-design-portfolio/