OSWeekends

A truly open source community

What is OSW?

We meet once per month to create and contribute to open source.

Our aim for the community meetings is to share knowledge and allow the

ideas to flow.

Everybody is welcome. The only requeriment is to do ethical , non-profit Open Source projects.

OSWaldito

Code and Design: Github | License: GNU GPL v3

OSW in numbers

Meetup members:

Slack people:

Sponsors:

+1500

+380

10

Community projects:

Collaborative projects:

+20

+10

Slack messages:

+172k

#OSWGuilds

It´s simply and uniquely a group of passionate people that creates a team and work together in an Open Source project.

They develop together an idea and transform it into a project and make it real, thanks to collaboration.

Guild, what is it about?

Our Values

• Learn - we believe in learning as booster for creative work and motivation 
• Commit -  for contribution and engagement (also a gesture to GitHub ;)
• Transform - for transforming and improving the world through Open Source projects 
• Lead by example - always leading with example 

Guilders:

Slack channels:

Sponsors:

+70

+10

2

Active Guilds:

Guilds building up:

8

5 and more!

OSWGuilds in numbers

Challenges

Open Source Challenges we faced

• Low technical and project knowledge
• Need of project´ leaders
• Lack of commitment and motivation
• Very high technical scope vs knowledge
• Planning sense and tools
• Unbalanced work load
• Lack of empathy to team members
• Need of developing leadership skills
• No-unified decisions
• No profiles diversification
• Need of improved communication and projects´promotion - what do we do and what do we need? 
• Participants need to feel part! 
• ...

Time to talk!

Which are your challenges?

Workshop

The scenario

You are part of the coordination team of an Open Source community.

 

You and your team are assessing this amount of feedback (issues to face and solve) before planning conviniently an Open Source projects´program for the community.  

 

You all know that this kind of initiative is very beneficial not only for the Open Source world but also for your community.

Workshop! (30')

We need to ideate easy solutions to blurry difficulties, before starting to plan the Open Source project initiative"

Steps:

• Let´s get into 5 groups of 6 participants each
• Synthesize the difficulties in 4 or 5 common causes
• Apply your creativity for solutions (many to one is the best!)
• Now synthesize all solutions in a bunch of initiatives
• Present your results to the rest of the participants ;) (if we are not running out of time)
• Maybe you already have the starting point of your Open Source projects development plan!  

 How to...

#OSWGuilds Model

"We want to contribute for the world to be more accesible and collaborative through the Open Source culture. We empower people and teams towards a more creative and innovative co-creation, thanks to a deep learning process, coaching and mentoring support."

Starting point clues...

• Define your strategy, scope, structure and roles from the challenges you face
• Bring into your plan your users´ perspectives and needs
• Don´t forget to settle your Mission, Vision and Values !
• Communicate depending on users and targets
• Collaborate with other communities and orgs. !
• Diversify roles and contributions !
• Find sponsors !
• Feedback, feedback, feedback !

#OSWGuilds Model

• New Guilds´Ambassador (Theba - Project and people focus)
• Guilds open to all profiles
• New teams (Guilds) and new roles (Contributor, leader)
• Learning plan combine technical, PM and empowerment skills
• Common learning path for all Guilders
• Specific learning path for Team Leaders
• Learning, experiment and testing on real projects
• Motivation: focus since Day 0 and regularly!

#OSWGuilds Model

• Mentoring plan and project office
• Technical resources (cloud infrastucture, domains, GitHub repos, hardware...)
• Gamification
• Dedicated track for Guilds during OSW monthly meetings (also in streaming) (English soon...)
• New sponsors, dedicated to #OSWGuilds
• #OSWGuilds SMedia, promotion and development plan

The best tip...ENJOY!!!