todogroup.org - resources for open source management

[daviddias]

Discovered today through @jlipps tweet that an organization currently exists to explore, collaborate and share best practices and tools to manage open source projects in the open. I feel that this comes timely, as we are improving our management ourselves :)

The todogroup members are currently in a quartely meeting, will use this issue to track the outcomes.

There are a bunch of articles are available of why and how some companies run and manage their Open Source projects, these are published on todogroup's blog http://todogroup.org/blog/

More about todogroup.org: http://todogroup.org/blog/todo-becomes-lf-collaborative-project/

[daviddias]

captured this at #269

[RichardLitt]

I don't want this to just be a link; I'd love to join this group on behalf of Protocol Labs. I think we should give back, as well. @flyingzumwalt Would you be interested in joining, too?

[flyingzumwalt]

Their current list of members includes a lot of companies that we have expressed admiration for, and occasionally said things like "we should ask them how they handle " So yeah. I'd be game for joining, though it's not clear how to do that.

Process note: this issue is not framed as something that has a clear "finished" state, hence the confusion about whether it should be closed. @RichardLitt please either rename this issue and update the description or create a new Issue to track the work of applying to the todo group. That will reduce confusion.

[RichardLitt]

I've added my name to their Join list. We'll see if they get back to us. For now, let's close this.