Choir and Community Management

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FLOSS Projects Community ManagementVision from a choir di{rec|cta}tor angle

Sept. 2013

2© Copyright 2013 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. Licensed under the CC-by-SA 3.0

Introducing Myself● Software engineering and Unices since 1988

– Mostly Configuration Management Systems (CMS), Build systems, quality tools, on multiple commercial Unix systems

– Discover Open Source & Linux (OSL) & first contributions in 1993

– Full time on OSL since 1995, first as HP reseller then @HP

● Currently:– Master Technology Architect on OSL for the HP/Intel Solution Center, Grenoble

– OSL HP Advocate

– EMEA OSL HP Profession Lead

– Solutions Linux Conference and OWF board member. Conferences at WW level in LinuxCon, Linux.conf.au

– MondoRescue, Dploy.org, Project-Builder.org Project Lead

– LinuxCOE, mrepo, tellico, rinse, fossology, collectl contributor

– FOSSBazaar and OSL Governance enthusiast

– Mandriva, Mageia, Fedora packager

● And also:

– Amateur singer (Alto / Tenor) and recorder player since 1976 and Choir director since 1987

– CD collector since 1981 (5000+ and counting) – Concert attendance since 1976

– Amateur photograph since 1976


Do you lead a large choir ?


Or self-sufficient soloists ?


Are the members inexperienced ?


Do you work with professionals ?


A mixed of experienced members and new comers ?


Do you have soloists ?


Also know your audience


You chose the score and language suited for your choir


You need a Forge ...


... at least some tools are needed


... not only dev tools, communication does matter


Eat your own dog food


Improve the rythm in the choir !


Improve the tune in the choir during rehearsal !


Help your choir members, and explain where you want to go.


You may need collaboration with other ensembles


Use existing competencies for what they’re good at


Give example !


Well really give example !


Make choices and apply them


Work hard !


Manage mix of professionals and amateurs


Keep your humour


Did I say Lead by example ?


Make concerts (aka release eraly release often)


Communicate on your concerts


Communicate your passion


Attire community members !


Lead by example


Get your family support as this is time consuming


Celebrate your successes


Reward contributions to the choir


Sometimes a project dies !


Before creating and leading a choir, learn to be the best singer possible

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