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		<title>Community Software Development training course</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past few months, I have been offering a new service &#8211; a training course tailored to helping a team be effective working with community projects &#8211; whether that is engaging an existing community, or growing a community around new code. Details of the topics I cover are up on the site now, along [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.neary-consulting.com/index.php/2011/12/07/community-software-development-training-course/</link>
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		<title>Getting people together</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reposted from gnome.org One of the most important things you can do in a free software project, besides writing code, is to get your key contributors together as often as possible. I&#8217;ve been fortunate to be able to organise a number of events in the past 10 years, and also to observe others and learn [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.neary-consulting.com/index.php/2011/06/06/getting-people-together/</link>
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		<title>Drawing up a roadmap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reposted from gnome.org One of the most important documents a project can have is some kind of elaboration of what the maintainers want to see happen in the future. This is the concrete expression of the project vision &#8211; it allows people to adhere to the vision, and gives them the opportunity to contribute to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.neary-consulting.com/index.php/2011/06/06/drawing-up-a-roadmap/</link>
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		<title>Effective mentoring programs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reposted from gnome.org I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot recently about mentoring programs, what works, what doesn&#8217;t, and what the minimum amount of effort needed to bootstrap a program might be. With the advent of Google Summer of Code and Google Code-In, more and more projects are formalising mentoring and thinking about what newcomers to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.neary-consulting.com/index.php/2011/06/06/effective-mentoring-programs/</link>
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		<title>The Lifecycle of a Patch (or: Working Upstream)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I looked into what it means to be a maintainer of a package. Today, I&#8217;m going to examine how to effect change in a distribution like MeeGo, and what it means to work upstream. To do so, we&#8217;re going to look at how code gets from a developer&#8217;s brain into the hands of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.neary-consulting.com/index.php/2011/01/14/the-lifecycle-of-a-patch/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s involved in maintaining a package?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An interesting question was asked on a MeeGo mailing list recently: What does it mean to be a maintainer of something? How much time does it take to maintain software? It resulted in a short discussion which went down a few back alleys, and I think has some useful general information for people working with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.neary-consulting.com/index.php/2011/01/13/whats-involved-in-maintaining-a-package/</link>
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		<title>Follow-up to &#8220;Shy Developer Syndrome&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My article on &#8220;Shy Developer Syndrome&#8221; a few weeks ago garnered quite a bit of interest, and useful feedback. Since a lot of it adds valuable perspectives to the problem, I thought I should share some of my favourite responses. On gnome.org, Rodney Dawes argued that developers tend to stay away from mailing lists because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.neary-consulting.com/index.php/2010/12/18/follow-up-to-shy-developer-syndrome/</link>
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		<title>Curing “Shy Developer Syndrome”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most common issues I have seen with experienced professional software developers who start to work on community software is a reluctance to engage with public communication channels like mailing lists. Understanding the reasons why, and helping your developers overcome their timidity, is key to creating a successful and fruitful relationship with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.neary-consulting.com/index.php/2010/12/08/curing-shy-developer-syndrome/</link>
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		<title>MeeGo report card</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dave Neary recently wrote a guest article for VisionMobile, charting the first months of the MeeGo project. From MeeGo Progress Report: A+ or D-? The end of October saw the release of MeeGo 1.1, the second major milestone release of the platform since it burst onto the scenes in February 2010. The MeeGo project was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.neary-consulting.com/index.php/2010/11/12/meego-report-card/</link>
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		<title>GNOME Census report now available as free download</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was delighted to see that the GNOME Census presentation I gave yesterday at GUADEC has gotten a lot of attention. And I&#8217;m pleased to announce a change of plan from what I presented yesterday: The report is now available under a Creative Commons license. Why the change of heart? My intention was never to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.neary-consulting.com/index.php/2010/07/29/gnome-census-report-now-available-as-free-download/</link>
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