Informed Content for Open Source Conversations
Building the Bazaar
The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Eric Raymond’s 1997 treatise describing the magic of open source development, has come true. Open source is industrial strength code now. It is just as likely that a line of business code is open source as licensed under private development.
Content Harmonizes the work of global contributor communities
Content Expertise for Open Source Projects
Documentation
Audit and structure content for clarity
Create and edit content
Business Case
Explain the project’s value to increase adoptions
Case studies, use cases, business-facing white papers
Onboarding and Up-leveling
Make contributors comfortable, confident, and valuable
Docs for maintaining and fostering contributors.
Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected.
— Number 14 of “Lessons for Creating Good Open Source Software” from The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond
How to be useful for Open Source Content
Listen and learn from stakeholders and contributors
Speak the language of the community
Bring a spirit of contribution
Provide expertise, focus, and commitment.
Case Study: Kubernetes Onboarding
To continue to thrive and to honor its values of inclusion, the open source behemoth Kubernetes needed to make onboarding easier. That is a lot to ask of a technology that no one would ever describe as easy or light.
How we engage
Open source organization is complex. Lion’s Way works with all manner of open source projects, usually through business stakeholders
Large communities sponsored by foundations
companies managing projects as part of their business model
integrators, clouds, and other services for building with open source software