Maintaining open source software is hard! Sustain is a community which holds conversations around meaningful open source resilience, equity, growth and scale, from the perspective of both FOSS projects and the individuals who participate and contribute. We largely use working groups as a means of helping share ideas around how to build healthier communities, to foster a culture of reciprocity from corporations and institutions using open source, and to involve more diverse voices. In this workshop, we will introduce some of the working groups and hold conversations around UX and Design, governance, and metrics. We invite all kinds of MozFests participants to come learn more about open source and sustainability, discover ways to participate in Sustain projects, and even workshop some of your own open source sustainability challenges with a group of passionate practitioners.
We encourage participants to become involved in the Sustain community, and for them to bring their own issues and challenges to the table so that we can collectively grow and learn from this session and moving forward.
What is the goal and/or outcome of your session?:Our dual goals is to take the knowledge we've gathered from the last three Sustain conferences, combined with the community feel of MozFest, to help specific open source projects learn how to become sustainable, as well as to grow and diversify our own Sustain community. We hope to take this work beyond Mozfest, following up and coordinating with member projects to ensure that they are well positioned to sustain themselves. We're also interested in allocating funding to these projects to get them started on the road to financial sustainability.
How will you deal with varying numbers of participants in your session?:Break out rooms will scale as needed.
Richard Littauer is a community facilitator, open source strategist, Node developer, Latin teacher, avid birder, and a general, well, person.
Designer working in for-profits and then moving into NGO's and open source software organisations, working on complex problems like sustainable food systems, peace building and crisis response technology.
Assistant Professor and Researcher at UOC - IN3, Barcelona, Spain. I love language engineering, Web APIs, Models and Collaboration
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