Unexpected rewards are better than expected rewards
Would you do it again for free?Since I’ve started talking about Would you do it again for free?, I’ve been very interested in any studies that show how extrinsic rewards change …
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GNOME Marketing Hackfest
gnomeEight of us from the GNOME Marketing team got together in Chicago for a hackfest earlier this week. We had a lot of great discussions, came up with some good …
Read more →How companies leave the community out of the conversation
open sourceThis morning I tried to attend a webinar, The Open Source Community vs. Patent Trolls - Preserving Developer Freedom. I knew the webinar was hosting on software …
Read more →How to plan a hackfest
gnome open sourcehackfest n. A meeting where developers gather together in person to work on a free software project. Hackfests are one of the ways that things get done on free …
Read more →Who do you represent?
womenChris pointed me at this cartoon as a comment to my It’s not about not offending post and I keep finding myself looking at it. I almost always feel like …
Read more →It's not about not offending
womenWhen talking about women in free software or political correctness in general, we seem to focus on saying things that “don’t offend” the …
Read more →7 ways not to procrastinate
CareerWhile I’ve learned not to procrastinate, the truth is that I do procrastinate every once in a while. This isn’t a post about why I procrastinate but …
Read more →Why you shouldn't do it all yourself
Career gnomeOne of the hardest things to learn in management is how not to do it all yourself. People often call this a problem with “delegation”. But the …
Read more →Grants, bounties and free software
interview open sourceBounties or grants are often suggested as a way companies can pay for work on free software projects. The GNOME community has had mixed results with bounties …
Read more →Book Review: Managing the Nonprofit Organization
Books Business gnomeIf you follow any of the links to Amazon in this post, any purchases you make will send a referral fee to the GNOME Foundation. Peter Drucker’s Managing …
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