The open source way is a way of thinking about how people collaborate within a community to achieve common goals and interests.
The open source way is similar to a barnraising.
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The open source way is a practice, and this is it's community of practice. In this community, we teach and learn the practice of collaborating in open community.
On this website you will find:
- Handbook (Edition 1, 2009 from version 0.2.2 for Red Hat) for how to create and nurture communities of contributors: wiki (most up-to-date), Multi-page HTML, Single-page HTML, PDF, and Epub. (This edition of the book has not been updated to latest content from the wiki.)
- Metrics working group are people interested in the how, why, and why of gathering and analyzing metrics about open communities. This working group has sunsetted, activities have moved elsewhere, in particular to Project CHAOSS.
- Main mailing list is for general community discussions about the practice and the project.
- Tools such as checklists and curriculum.
- Recommended books.
- Source materials and data for reference.
- Source code for everything in the project not in the wiki.
- Our contribution policy is clear and more useful than any CLA.