Shane is founder of Punderthings℠ LLC consultancy, helping organizations find better ways to engage with the critical open source projects that power modern technology and business. He blogs and tweets about open source governance and trademark issues, and has spoken at major technology conferences like ApacheCon, OSCON, All Things Open, Community Leadership Summit, and Ignite.
Shane Curcuru serves as VP Brand Management for the ASF, wrote the trademark and branding policies that cover all 200+ Apache® projects, and assists projects with defining and policing their trademarks, as well as negotiating agreements with various software vendors using Apache software brands. Shane is serving a seventh term as an elected Director of the ASF, providing governance oversight, community mentoring, and fiscal review for all Apache projects.
Otherwise, Shane is: a father and husband, a BMW driver and punny guy. Oh, and we have cats! Follow @ShaneCurcuru and read about open source communities and see my FOSS Foundation directory.
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Code has little value to other humans (besides the developer that wrote it) if no-one else bothers to use it. It's often not a question of understanding how the code works - there are plenty of other developers that *can* figure it out - it's a question of choice. There are lots of great code libraries out there: users have choices. And they will tend to choose libraries that are easy to use - including good documentation.
Separately, the Feedmereadme README.md is a little funny itself! Instead of telling the story of how the project came to be, starting the README with even more direct "What this is/how to contribute" at the very top would be useful.
The rationale and how it came to be can come later - that kind of information is only useful once someone decides they're interested in fully reading the README.
A tricky way to get some age demographics on your readers, too!
I can't actually remember if we originally had an account below 2400 or not. But I do still have a Hayes in the basement somewhere that you'd remember the model number of!