Processes for FLOSS Communities

Key Ideas

Community is expanding (Kaliya references Homesteading the Noosphere)
Facilitating communication in this broader community - especially in communications between the core team and users.
Open Space Technology as process to help this process (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology)

Where is the value in standard conferences?
People noted that early on, they followed the standard tracks in conferences and then later found that the value was in meeting people (aka “The Hallway Track”
How can you capture the result of face to face meetings?
Have expert meeting documentors and facilitators
Record and then clean up afterwards
People documenting meetings shouldn’t be afraid to ask for clarification
It is great to know what processes various groups engage in - that really helps us innovate as a group
How can we get more of these?
How can we balance formality vs. improvization?
Don’t be afraid to break stuff
Don’t be afraid to start a bit faster, sloppier, etc.
How do we communicate better with people?
How can we enable better communication between the FLOSS community and the public?
How does this matter?
How the hell can we sum up this discussion? Sounds like a good topic to work on tomorrow?

A neat alternate term by Julian