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Atlanta Plonista Presents in Italy Plone Conference
I got the opportunity to present at the annual Plone Conference in Naples, Italy this year on the work I have done organizing the GetPaid project. Read on for news on the event and presentation.
Plone Conference, Naples, 2007
The Naples conference drew over 350 people for 3 days of conference followed by 3 days of sprinting. More on the
sprint can be seen on Technorati, Flickr. You can also download most of the presentations here.
An extract from the full blog post on the talk, notes, ideas, etc:
Social Sourcing Talk
The GetPaid project was organized differently than your average free
software project. For one, we raised money for it. Additionally, we had
an integrated design process that involved non-developers from the
beginning. In the talk, I introduce the social sourcing model we used
and why this was an important process for making the best product
possible. I explained the process by telling the GetPaid story.
Basic outline of the process:
Definition: An organizing approach that gets diverse stakeholders to participate to the software making process.
Outline of Social Sourcing, v1.0 Alpha ;)
- Study the market (benchmark)
- Put together a compelling plan
- Recruit the right people
- Engage a wide base in refining requirements
- Ask for money
- Celebrate successes
- Sustain it: fun, organization, motivation
- Regroup, review, and restart...