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.

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

Authored Content

The right way to fail

At OSCON this year, Amye Scavarda and Leslie Hawthorn gave a talk entitled "Fear of Failing Fast: How to Avoid Sabotaging Your Success." I just had to attend. Here's a summary…

A quiz to gauge your commitment to open source

At OSCON this year, Jared Smith of Bluehost spoke about how our companies can become good open source citizens. At ByWater Solutions, my job involves engaging in community…

How to do open research: 5 basic principles

7 books every community manager should read

For my very first OSCON session this year, I got to attend the Community Management Workshop hosted by Jono Bacon. As an avid reader, the best part of this talk was the list…

The real reason Facebook does open source

On the third day of OSCON, I heard Facebook's James Pearce deliver one of the convention's many keynote presentations. Pearce explained how Facebook does open source at scale…

A guide for community management from Jono Bacon

My first session at OSCON this year was hosted by Jono Bacon on community management. We've seen a remarkable growth in community all over the world—people are getting…

What matters most? Using metrics to build a better team

When I talk about open source software the first thing I always mention is community and collaboration. I leave the talk of licenses and software development for later…