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🔨 Some things we’ve been working on

We’ve been having incredibly generative conversations during our sessions with the CZI’s EOSS grantees community calls. Our goal with the calls was to produce materials that would support the community as a whole and so we’ve been working hard to capture the topics of conversation in collaborative resources where we can encourage the wider open source community to contribute. 

The resources from the first three calls have now been created and are open for additional contributions. If you have thoughts, resources, suggestions, comments or ideas, we’d be interested in hearing your take. As we add in more voices, we’ll also add your name to the contributor list (unless you tell us you’d prefer we not name you - just let us know). 

The first resource,“Managing an open source project: A checklist of issues to consider,” lists some things for project leaders, staff, and community members to discuss and explore when making decisions about their projects. Our hope was to combine the expertise across projects and to help nascent groups that are forming their organizations to have a sense of the types of things to be aware of as they become managers of these projects.

The second resource is called “Ten Simple Rules for Managing without Formal Authority” and offers some ideas for leading communities comprising people from different organizations and backgrounds, where leaders may not have the same “carrots and sticks” they have when managing people in their day jobs. 

Our third resource will be directed at helping projects think about how they measure project impact and community health. Look for a link in our next newsletter!  

Something that caught our eye: 

We always like to see conversations about mycelium in major news outlets. This article in the Washington Post talks about the growth of cultivation and use of mushrooms, take a look! 🍄