In 2020, I am writing the first draft of a book teaching the skills open source software maintainers need, aimed at those working scientists and other contributors who have never managed public-facing projects before.
It'll discuss social, digital, technical, and legal/financial infrastructure you need to assess, set up, and maintain. I write a little more about my aims in this blog post <https://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2020/01/29/0>. This book will be a sequel to Karl Fogel's excellent *Producing Open Source Software* <https://producingoss.com/>. Some of the sections I expect to be writing: * how to do an assessment of an existing project, like taking a patient's history and making a chart * how to notice and then deal with toxic people * how to run a meeting (with more detailed examples than are in, for instance, *Teaching Tech Together*'s section on meetings <http://teachtogether.tech/#s:meetings>) * how to write a grant proposal If you're interested in reviewing my outline or chapters as I write them and giving feedback then I welcome off-list replies. If you merely want to say "yes! please write this book! here is how/where I want to use it!" then I welcome replies on-list (which will help me prove the market to publishers). :-) I live in New York City, but if you want to talk about this project, I will be: * at the Exascale Computing Project Annual Meeting this week in Houston, Texas, USA * in the SF Bay Area late this month * at PyCon North America in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US in mid-April * at Title of Conf <https://www.titleofconf.org/> in Detroit, MI, USA in early May * at WisCon <http://wiscon.net/> in Madison, WI, USA in late May ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T1a0d4bfdb582b443-M8bfe921cbeebbf516707fbb8 Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
