tending the garden

I want to talk about a couple things today during my unfortunately named “architecting participation” session at BarCampPortland. My goals for participation are to get people to an event or be part of an open source group and then to get them to keep coming back.

The three things I’m going to touch on are: inviting in and making people feel welcome, making people feel useful, and making things fun.

With the ultimate goal being world domination of free and open source software.

We’ll see how it goes

Related posts:

1. What’s changed? Portland as an example of increasing women’s participation.
2. What works? Getting more women involved in open source.
3. participation in open source, any worse than the rest of the industry?
4. Pluggable architecture, not just for code
5. My thoughts about community management