The better late than never OSCON blog.

First, CLS was an incredibly great weekend.  My job is weird enough that I went for a long time not knowing other people who really do what I do, and it's nice to know my peers and to watch the emergence of best practices come out of discussions like this.  In the next few weeks we'll start rolling out the migration plans for the site, and as you might imagine I'm a little terrified of what the next few months are going to bring.  CLS sessions on Change Management were quite helpful in providing me advice and resources to help get us through the process.  So now I'm a little less terrified.  That's a good thing.  At OSCON I attended a couple of technical tutorials, but mostly stayed on the Community Track.  Highlights for me were Anna Ravenscroft on Diversity as a Dependency and Brian Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman on Engineering Leadership.    I know that the Leadership one was recorded, but haven't seen the video pop up on line yet.  It's worth watching if you trip over it and are looking for project or team management advice.  The heart and soul of the conference for me were three presentations about building and maintaining communities, and with an eye toward onboarding new developers.  The person that most influenced my thinking was Denise Paolucci of Dream...

Date: August, 03 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/communitymanager/archive/2010/08/03/better-late-never-oscon-blog

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