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Enabling Healthy Open Source Communities: Case study – Thunderbird
= Enabling Healthy Open Source Communities: Case study – Thunderbird =
Title The title of this talk is pretty straight forwardgives a good sense of what it was about. As it is saying The title, “Enabling healthy Open Source Communities: Case Study- Thunderbird” , gives a hint that the talk is was all about: how Thunderbird community works, how can somebody get into the community and what are the Thunderbird people community members are doing to grow the community.
For Discussing this discussing these ideas and thoughts , Seneca has college invited Mr. Dan Mosedale to talk about the Topic. Mr. Mosedale He is a lead developer in Mozilla and devoted to employed by Mozilla Corporation for many years. He is also involved into in Mozilla community building and community development. In general, He is one of the valid spokesperson spokespersons who can have authority to talk about the topicof the talk. His discussion mainly focuses on the ideas mentioned below:
== Skills Required ==
First of allIn the beginning, he addressed that a person who want is willing to be a part of the open source community requires two types of skills: coding and communication - communication to spread the community. Of course, coding is the major skill required to get into the community. The person requires a background of coding to write the code required to complete a certain tasktasks. The other skill is communication for spreading the open source community. This skill contents invitingCommunity members should communicate in a way that they invite people, caring care for newcomers and respectingrespect other community members. Inviting means a person should invite other developers to the community. Caring means the person should take care of newcomers in the community. The person A community members should try to help new comer as much as 'possible to the new comer ' in order to prevent the them from a feeling of being left alone. This Helping newcomers would boost up the confidence of the new comer a newcomer and will generate a positive feeling of being part of the family.
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