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Massimo Banzi’s 13 Rules for Open Source Projects
brucesterling: Adapted from a talk by Massimo Banzi, co-founder of Arduino, presented at World Maker Faire 2011 in New York. 1. Don’t make something you don’t use yourself. 2. Know who you are making it for. 3. Know what you want out of it. 4. Make projects, not platforms. 5. Respect the intelligence of the…
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Not only that, but efforts to make women change simply aren’t solving tech’s gender problem: instead, it’s getting worse. Women still make up only 25% of tech roles, with women of color particularly underrepresented: the computing workforce is just 3% Black women, 5% Asian women, and 1% Latina women. All lean in means is that…
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““The easy problems have been solved. Designing systems is difficult because there is no consensus on what the problems are, let alone how to solve them,” wrote Mary Poppendieck, the lean-software development guru, in 2002.” Strategy as a Wicked Problem https://hbr.org/2008/05/strategy-as-a-wicked-problem via Instapaper (via iamdanw)
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Jerry Saltz: Every artist makes rules — I’ll only use rulers, or I won’t use the camera. One of your rules, unconsciously or consciously, was “I’m not going to be an actor, a star, in these videos”? James Franco: Yes, early on. Because I had this feeling like, Oh, I should keep these worlds separate.…
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In terms of structure, having been part of Slack groups ranging in size from 2 to 2,000 people, I have learned that Slack only really works at the team level of 2–25 people (give or take). It is possible to derive value from larger channels, for example as activity streams mostly for notifications, but not…