The Art of Community Source Within Sakai

This is a presentation of my view of Community Source. I start out by reviewing Jono Bacon's (Ubuntu Community Manager) book and presentation titled "The Art of Community" and describe some of the concepts that come from Jono's work. I then apply Jono's terminology to the Moodle, Blackboard, Python, Apache, and Kuali projects to develop a way to categorize open and community source efforts. I then look at Sakai's changing view of 'Community Source' as we transitioned from one executive director (me) to another (Michael Korkuska). I review what I see as the strengths and weaknesses of community structure under both leaders and then suggest how we can improve our current structure - in particular - how we need to adjust our definition of the Sakai Product Council to remove some of the tension in our current structure.

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Science & Technology

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• 2010
• 05
• 08
• art
• of
• community
• source