Let's talk: Communication & Consensus Building in Open-Source
- Track:
- Community Building, Education, Outreach
- Type:
- Talk (long session)
- Level:
- beginner
- Room:
- Terrace 2A
- Start:
- 10:45 on Wednesday, 16 July 2025
- End:
- 11:30 on Wednesday, 16 July 2025
- Duration:
- 45 minutes
Abstract
Open-source communities are often distributed around the world which presents a challenge to fostering effective communication and consensus building among its members. As the project and community grows, the challenges around facilitating effective communication only become more difficult.
Thankfully, there are a myriad of tools and methodologies available to deal with these challenges. During this talk, I will cover three ways both large and small open source communities can tackle these communication issues: project chats and message boards, regular project meetings and project enhancement proposals.
To learn more about these tools in practice, we'll follow a fiction character through his journey of creating and maintaining an open-source project 😺 🐈 😺 🐈 😺