### Editor's Note ### Happy April, everyone!
To kick off a fresh month, new contributor (yay!) Javier Cánovas offers recent findings from his research on open source governance models. The lesson here for open organizations: Whatever your rules, make them explicit and clear if you want to increase participation and engagement. Welcome, Javier! –B ### New Today ### Javier Cánovas: "Projects that make their rules explicit would see more participation" https://opensource.com/open-organization/18/4/new-governance-model-research red.ht/2Glyjjd Sample social media: New research indicates that more projects and communities are being transparent about their governance models—but many still aren't. red.ht/2Glyjjd #TheOpenOrg "I queried GitHub to collect the 25 most-starred open source projects of the platform." @jlcanovas explores the role governance models play in most popular communities. red.ht/2Glyjjd #TheOpenOrg "New mechanisms to empower developers (and end-users) to express (and make explicit) the rules and norms that govern collaboration would help the open source movement and open organizations specifically," writes @jlcanovas red.ht/2Glyjjd #TheOpenOrg ### Previously Published ### Jimmy Sjölund: "Time to rethink your team's approach to meetings" https://opensource.com/open-organization/18/3/open-approaches-meetings First day page views: 167 ### Traffic ### Page views yesterday: 524 Page views from Twitter yesterday: 23 Total page views for the month: 893 ### Downloads ### Workbook downloads: 5 Workbook downloads for the month: 6 Guide to IT Culture Change downloads: 1 Guide to IT Culture Change downloads for the month: 1 Leaders Manual downloads: 0 Leaders Manual downloads for the month: 4 Catalyst-In-Chief downloads: 0 Total Catalyst-In-Chief downloads for the month: 2 Field Guide downloads: 2 Total Field Guide downloads for the month: 3 ########## _______________________________________________ Openorg-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/openorg-list
