Communities where we work
Fedora Project
The development of GNOME 3, available in Fedora 15, was helped by the Fedora community and Red Hat.
The Fedora Project is a global partnership of free software community members which builds open source software communities and produces the Fedora Linux distribution. The Fedora Project’s mission is to lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community.
The Fedora Project champions new advancements in free and open source software, providing development, marketing and a user base to projects such as GNOME, the Linux kernel, and countless other software projects.
Our team is responsible for senior-level strategic and tactical leadership within the Fedora Project, and many of us spent large chunks of our careers working directly on Fedora. We are also responsible for funding FUDCon and the Ambassadors program.
TeachingOpenSource.org
David Humphrey, professor at Seneca College and Mozilla contributor, discusses bug trackers during POSSE 2009.
Teaching Open Source is a community of practice dedicated towards incorporating open source community participation into formal academic experiences. Its membership consists of teachers, professors and instructors of all levels, as well as open source community members, students, curriculum experts and industry veterans.
Within the Teaching Open Source community, our team runs POSSE (Professors’ Open Source Summer Experience), a faculty education series for college and university professors who wish to redesign their courses to involve students in open source projects. We teach summer workshops and provide course consulting and support during the school year.
We also provide small course and conference travel grants to faculty who are getting their students involved in open source communities so that these professors and their students can present their work and participate in in-person hackfests with their project communities.
The Open Source Way
A community raising a barn is working in the open source way.
Many people see the capabilities and success of organizations and efforts that seemingly follow the open source way. What is this way, and how does one follow it? The Open Source Way is a community of practitioners who are writing down the principles (what), implementation (how) and examples (why) of practicing the open source way beyond software development.
Community features:
A handbook that extrapolates the principles so you can more easily map the principles to your domain of interest
The handbook is highly referenceable and easy to contribute to
All work, especially the handbook, done using the same open source way methodology being studied and written about
Location for canonical processes and information about implementing the open source way, from training to checklists
opensource.com
opensource.com explores what happens when the open source way is applied to all aspects of the world. The open source way is more than a development model; it defines the characteristics of a culture, and opensource.com explores the growth of that culture within society as a whole, from the growth of community based web communities such as Wikipedia to the changing world of US politics, to the growth of openness in education.
Our team regularly contributes to opensource.com, writing on a variety of topics, primarly around education and the Teaching Open Source community.
- Fedora 14 wallpaper by the Fedora Project, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license.
- Photo of book by Horia Varlan, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license.
- Photo of POSSE 2009 by Christian Jacobsen, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
- Rail tracks illustration, barn raising illustration and “The Open Source Story Shares Itself” from opensource.com, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license.