Melissa Draper
Melissa Draper
Melissa is a web developer by trade, but invests most of her free time into Open Source advocacy. She has written articles for Linux.com, serves on the Linux Australia Council and is Secretary of the Sydney Linux Users Group, but her primary focus area is the Ubuntu community. Melissa's involvement in the Ubuntu project has included work with Local Community Teams, community marketing, IRC management and the Ubuntu Regional Membership Board for Asia/Oceania. Melissa is also an active contributor in various groups advocating the participation of women in Open Source such as LinuxChix and Ubuntu-Women.
Cultivating Codeless Contributors
Cultivating Codeless Contributors discusses making light work of project growth by utilising the talents of those willing to help in ways that don't involve cutting code.
There is an old adage which says "Many hands make light work". This is not untrue of software development; big successful projects are built on the work of many people. Everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses, and not everyone's strengths include cutting code. How can your project appropriately exploit the talents of the volunteers it already has (and maybe collect a few more along the way)? The author plucks seeds of wisdom from her experiences with the Ubuntu community to help answer this question.
Published Oct 24, 2009.
For my own ref as much as anything: http://www.slideshare.net/guest1c9dfc29/cultivating-codeless-contributors