Since it seemed fairly relevant, I made a point to attend Stormy Peters ‘ talk “ What does a community manager do ?” on the first day of SCALE. Having just taken on that role here with openSUSE, I was curious to see whether my job description was in line with Peters’ interpretation of the community manager role, and also wanted to see if I could snag a few good ideas.
Stormy Peters talks about community managers
I was pleased to see that 1) a lot of people in the room (maybe one-third) were community managers (if by that title or another), and 2) the people in attendance seemed to largely agree on what, in fact, community managers are supposed to be doing.
So what are community managers supposed to be doing? Well, here’s a short list:
Community managers advocate for the community.
Community managers help the community grow.
Community managers work as an “interpreter” to explain community problems to the...
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According to Stephen Vaughan-Nichols there will be 2.4 million more Linux desktop users by the end of the year. And that’s only counting Eee PC users. ... more
A Washington man who told officers he fatally shot his 6-year-old daughter while cleaning a gun had been drinking heavily, court records indicate.
Snohomish County sheriff’s deputies arrested 42-year-old Richard Peters of Marysville following the Sunday night shooting while they considered whether to file felony first-degree manslaughter charges, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported Monday.
Peters called 911 after the shooting, around 7:30 p.m. His daughter, Stormy Peters, was rush... more
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Hello world! From: zonker.opensuse.org Post Date: 2008-02-04 05:00:27
As you may have already read on news.opensuse.org (thanks, AJ, for the warm welcome!) or elsewhere, I’ve just joined Novell as the openSUSE community manager. I’m really jazzed about joining Novell and the openSUSE team, and excited to be getting started. I’d like to start off by saying a big thanks to AJ, Martin Lasarsch, Michael Loeffler, and Justin Steinman and other openSUSE and Novell folks for the information and help they’ve provided leading up to today. I... more
If I needed any affirmation that I’d made the right choice in joining Novell and the openSUSE team, I got it yesterday, in bulk. I got a ton of “ welcome aboard ” notes via IRC, IM, email , blog posts , and blog comments from Novell employees and openSUSE contributors and users wishing me good luck on the job — and, in many cases, asking when I’d be in [insert location here] so that we could meet face to face. I find it interesting, and reassuring, that eve... more
Fire up those IRC clients and head over to the #openSUSE-project channel on Freenode today at 17:00 GMT for the openSUSE Project meeting. One of the key topics we’ll be discussing this week is the proposed Code of Conduct . Given the importance of the CoC, I hope we’ll see a record turnout in IRC today to participate in the discussion.
There will also be an update on the status of Factory and the build service. The rest of the agenda is available on the wiki — you can... more
I’ve been hanging out in #openSUSE-project for a few days now, and the question posed to me most frequently is what desktop are you running? I guess this is usually a straightforward question — pick a desktop you like and stick with it, right?
Right now, I’m using KDE on my main desktop. Let me show you it:
I’ve got a dual-head video card, and two 20″ Dell widescreen monitors — which openSUSE 10.3 had no problem detecting and putting to work. (I... more
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