Introducing //TODO for companies that are committed to open source

Post by tdicola » Tue, Sep 16, 2014, 4:18 AM UTC

amateurhuman wrote: post #25

tdicola wrote: post #9

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Would love to see someone from Github answer this question. Very curious what //TODO is about, what it actually does, etc.

I added some comments about the impetus for launching TODO, and why we approached it by not being prescriptive out of the gate. The list of possible projects is long, and our first order of business is prioritizing them. We'll be contacting the interested companies (over 200 now) about an in-person workshop and the other discussion platforms we're using.

Post by jamesgpearce » Fri, Sep 19, 2014, 6:06 PM UTC

biot wrote: post #20

jamesgpearce wrote: post #13

Hey all, I've been part of pulling this initiative together and thought I'd just put together some of our early thoughts. The primary purpose is to get the open source program managers from companies together. It turns out there are a bunch of challenges for companies who want to run open source projects effectively, and we discovered we had only rarely even shared our own experiences of doing so - let alone figured…

If I'm understanding the intent correctly, it sounds like the home page could use something like this: "Does your company release open source projects? Would you like to improve how you interact with the open source community to better manage and run your projects? Join your peers at //TODO and collaborate on practices, tools, and other ways to run a successful and effective open source program."