Talk:Sugar Labs/Governance
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Other examples
Please list links to other OSS projects governance documents that may serve as examples of what to do (or what not to do)
OSS Governance documents
Books discussing OSS projects
Links to books (articles) that may make interesting background reading
- http://producingoss.com/
- Karl Fogel, who has worked on the development teams of CVS, GNU Emacs and Subversion, and is also the writer of “Open Source Development with CVS”—has introduced an extremely comprehensive project guide that will change the way people begin and think about open source projects.
- http://www.dreamingincode.com/
- Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software. The story of Mitch Kapor's Chandler project.
Document length
This is a pretty long and complex document for a first pass at governance of a small project. Most of the details (of becoming a member, having specific committees, or contributing as an organization) could more simply be left on their own pages, and the core gov documents reduced to a few dozen lines. +sj + 03:50, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
- I've moved some of the details to subpages. --Walter 16:43, 12 June 2008 (UTC)