Tweet This is a guest post by my esteemed team mate Vikram Vaswani: A few days ago, I presented a session entitled “Community Matters: Why Open Source Marketing Can Help Improve Your Product” at Open Source India 2012 in Bangalore. Continue reading
Tweet Open Source India is a well-known annual open source conference in India. This year, it will be held in Bangalore between October 12-14 at the NIMHANS Convention Centre, and my Age of Peers colleague Vikram Vaswani will be presenting Continue reading
Tweet Red Hat’s opensource.com has published my article “Marketing open source is made for geeks”, which has a case study and some ideas for how you can take your open source product “across the chasm“. Every open source business ecosystem Continue reading
Tweet This blog post lists some important things you should think about when making your first community manager hire, why credibility is the most important trait of character and why being quirky might be a virtue. Full Time Job If Continue reading
Tweet The Community Leadership Summit (CLS) will start in a few days. This post was inspired by meeting notes of last year’s event. Community development is a tricky thing to get right. In a typical vendor or consortium-driven Open Source community, Continue reading
Tweet I’m very happy to announce a new client of my agency Age of Peers: Paris-based Modeliosoft has open-sourced Modelio, a professional modeling environment for developers, systems engineers and business architects. We supported Modeliosoft with marketing and community strategy services Continue reading
Tweet At Open World Forum in Paris last week, I had the chance to interview Ross Turk, Senior Director of Communities at Talend, and could talk him into showing how he collects and analyzes community metrics. Ross uses Talend to Continue reading
Tweet The Open Source Business Resource (OSBR) published an article of your true and only. OSBR is a free monthly publication of the Talent First Network. Each issue contains thoughtful insights on issues relating to the development and commercialization of Continue reading
Tweet Back at OSBC in 2009, Stephen Walli and Dave Neary discussed the role of community managers and I was sitting at the same table. Back then, I was not really sure which stance to take, whether it was better Continue reading
Tweet For Open Source projects whose software architecture allows it, inviting developers to extend the core product through add-on modules and plug-ins is a great way to raise interest and awareness and thus kickstart or foster an adoption/contribution cycle. In Continue reading