Nicole C. Baratta

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Austin, TX

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.

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Authored Content

From myriad spectacular failures, a winning talk

Josh Simmons is speaking at Texas Linux Fest 2015, delivering this talk: Fail Early, Fail Often, Fail Well. In this interview, Simmons explains the meaning and value of…

Never neglect your project's architecture

Martin Fowler of ThoughtWorks began the second morning of OSCON 2015 with a talk about architecture. Fowler started his talk by defining what architecture means with regard to…

Tips for how to plan an open source event

At OSCON this year, Kara Sowles and Francesca Krihely gave an amazing workshop on how to plan and run tech events. So many tech events I've attended have looked completely…

This is why your open source project is failing

At OSCON this year, Red Hat's Tom Callaway gave a talk entitled "This is Why You Fail: The Avoidable Mistakes Open Source Projects STILL Make." In 2009, Callaway was starting…

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Open source software is the only way to keep up

Allison Randal of Hewlett-Packard began her keynote for OSCON 2015 with a quotation I'd never heard: "I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists simply to make…

How to get designers involved in your software project

I attended Una Kravets' OSCON talk, "Open Source Design: A Love Story," after interviewing her recently. To begin, Kravets reminded us that we all gathered at OSCON to be…

Authored Comments

ncbaratta

27 Jul 2015

7 books every community manager should read

Thank you for the recommendation!

ncbaratta

29 Apr 2015

What is open source? Licensing, history, and more

Thanks for the clarification. Please remember I was live blogging the event and might have missed things, but will do some more research before putting any of this info in to practice.