phpBB. Software I’ll always have a love for. It’s not only awesome forum software (probably the de facto standard for discussion forums right now) but it’s also the first Open Source project that I truely contributed to. As a member of the Support Team and as the Support Team Leader I learned a lot about…
Not too long ago I was the “external expert” on the graduation project of my then-colleague Erik Baars. His topic was “contributing to Open Source” and parts of this blogpost owe some credits to Erik for inspiring me to write about this topic. Just as a FYI: Erik Baars graduated on the topic, so you…
Hey phpBB community, It has been a long time since I logged in here (I haven’t checked, but it must’ve been years). I’ve had great years here at phpBB back in the days of phpBB2 as a user, Support Team Member and Support Team Leader, and even though I have moved on since, phpBB and…
This is another example why the community around open source projects is awesome. It is the perfect example of why you should share your solutions with the world at large. Whether you do it on your own weblog, on a forum, in a mailinglist. The solution to a lot of common problems is a single…
The position of Community Manager is a relatively new position inside the symfony project. It was launched last year at the SymfonyCamp at a discussion on how the community can be more active and how these contributions could be managed better. I posed the idea of a community manager, and Fabien liked the idea. Kris…
During out presentation at php|tek (of which unfortunately the recordings did not work out, sorry), Lorna and I have spoken on the community. About understanding and using the community. About consuming, and about contributing. We didn’t really touch the huge difference in personalities and opinions. Every once in a while, something will clash, some problem…
Yesterday evenings I went for a diner with Ivo Jansch , Cal Evans , Michelangelo van Dam and Remi Woler . We went to this small restaurant in Amsterdam called ‘Moeders ‘, had a great dinner, lots of awesome geeky php discussions, and an allround great time. After diner we sat down at the hotel…
Being involved in some forum software myself, I’m always interested in reading what people have to say about related topics. Venturus published an article on how to build a popular forum community, which contains some useful tips. I don’t agree with everything said, but there are definately some valid points in this article. Basically, I…