{"id":234,"date":"2010-06-25T22:33:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T22:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/?p=234"},"modified":"2010-06-25T22:33:10","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T22:33:10","slug":"open-source-and-volunteer-organizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/2010\/06\/open-source-and-volunteer-organizations\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Source and Volunteer Organizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from <acronym title=\"Yet Another Perl Conference\">YAPC<\/acronym>::<acronym title=\"North America\">NA<\/acronym> 2010. As usual, the presentations were great and the people were better.<\/p>\n<p>At last year&#8217;s YAPC, I had the good fortune to attend a talk by <a href=\"http:\/\/martian.org\/karen\/\">Karen Pauley<\/a> entitled <em>Remote Controlled Volunteers<\/em>. It&#8217;s not the kind of talk I would normally look for, but I thought I would check it out anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Boy, was I glad I did. Karen (currently The Perl Foundation president) has a lot of experience dealing with volunteers. Her observations of the connections between the open source community and difference kinds of volunteer organizations were right on target. Since my wife does a lot of work with volunteer organizations, I wanted to show her Karen&#8217;s slides. I was never able to find them.<\/p>\n<p>When I got a chance to talk to Karen at this year&#8217;s YAPC::NA, I told her (again) how much I had enjoyed the previous talk and how disappointed I was that I had never been able to show it to others. Fortunately, she had polished the talk some more and presented it again. The paper <a href=\"http:\/\/2009.osdc.com.au\/papers\/Karen_Pauley\/Remote_Controlled_Volunteers\/OSDC_understanding_volunteers.txt\">Understanding Volunteers<\/a> is the essence of the talk I was looking for, and she gave me the link.<\/p>\n<p>If you ever have a need to understand what drives a particular open source or volunteer group, this paper is a real help. Open source projects are as much (or more) about the people as about the technologies. Many of us technologists forget that. Karen obviously doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from YAPC::NA 2010. As usual, the presentations were great and the people were better. At last year&#8217;s YAPC, I had the good fortune to attend a talk by Karen Pauley entitled Remote Controlled Volunteers. It&#8217;s not the kind of talk I would normally look for, but I thought I would check\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/2010\/06\/open-source-and-volunteer-organizations\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[78,231,241,364],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}