Saturday, September 16, 2006

Art of Community

I have been talking recently at conferences (OSCON and FooCamp) about the Art of Community as part of a project that Danese Cooper and I are doing for O'Reilly Media. We are in the process of writing a book on the Art of Community, which will start as a wiki with plans to write an initial first draft of the chapters, post them to the wiki, and allow the community to be our editors / collaborators on the project. We also plan to record a bunch of podcasts to include on the wiki and use as vignettes in the text of the book. We are still in the process of writing the chapter drafts, so the wiki is not yet public; however, we are looking for input and ideas.

If you have something interesting to say about community and would like to talk to us, please contact me: dawn at dawnfoster dot com.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi. I'm a professor at OSU thinking about writing a textbook on how to get students involved in open source development. that is a particular type of community. I'd be interested in hearing stories about how people got interested in OSS development, or other advice on what should be in such a book. tim budd (budd@acm.org)