Open source communities face unique challenges. Distributed teams, volunteer contributors, competing priorities, and the constant balance between technical excellence and human connection make leading these projects particularly complex. As the Project Lead for Mautic, I've often found myself searching for frameworks that address these multifaceted challenges.
I was surprised to find such relevant guidance in ancient Buddhist teachings dating back nearly 2,000 years.
This blog shares my journey with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and celebrates the achievement of completing a 50 mile run to raise funds for Breathworks.
It's Monday morning, you've just spent the entire weekend at FOSDEM in Belgium, and now the Eurostar departures lounge is filled with a disproportionate amount of people wearing hoodies and using laptops covered in stickers .... it must be the SOOCon Eurostar back to London!
A free conference, with 885 talks comprising of 365 hours of content over two days all of which are live streamed, recorded and made available within days, entirely organised by volunteers and with over 8,000 attendees - sounds impossible, right?
Ever felt like you're at the foot of Everest when you decide to create a huge project or a long-term collaboration for an Open Source project? Tell me about it! But here's some good news - I'm going to share the tips we discovered going through just such a project with Mautic, an open source marketing automation platform.
Another quarter of significant change in the Mautic project, we've lots going on in many different areas.
Another busy quarter has flown past, here’s a round-up of what’s been happening in the community!
Like many Brits, English is the only language I speak fluently. I speak schoolgirl French, a bit of Welsh and a few words in German and Dutch. I'm eternally grateful that many people I interact with from around the world are able to speak English at a basic level, and that when I speak at conferences and events, I do so in my first language. But, for so many, that's not the case.