SWiB16

I keynoted Semantic Web in Libraries 2016 in Bonn, Germany on 30 November 2016.

Video of keynote (plus conference livestream playlist)

Slides [pdf]

Bibliography

Handy links for things I reference, or was inspired by, in the talk:

Documentation

• Write the Docs
• Jacob Kaplan-Moss on Documentation

Contributor retention

• The Wikipedia Teahouse
• Wikimedia research on the Teahouse and editor retention
• General Wikimedia research on editor retention
• Mozilla research on contributor retention

Dreamwidth fundamental decisions

• “dreamwidth as vindication of a few cherished theories”

Other infrastructure

• “Beyond Open Source: Evaluating the Community Availability of Software”

Contributor license agreements

• Bess Sadler’s “Creating a Commons” [text]
• Bess Sadler’s “Creating a Commons” [including video]r
• Hydra Project Intellectual Property Licensing and Ownership
• “Why Your Project Doesn’t Need a Contributor Licensing Agreement”

‘Bring a friend’ rules

• “Lessons learned from the Boston Python Workshop, an outreach event for women”
• Software Carpentry FAQ

Speaker outreach

• “How I Got 50% Women Speakers at My Tech Conference”
• “Beating the Odds — How We got 25% Women Speakers for JSConf EU 2012”

Other governance

• Recurse Center social rules

Codes of conduct

• Ada Initiative conference policy resources
• AdaCamp documents
• American Library Association Statement of Appropriate Conduct
• Code4Lib Anti-Harrassment policy

Culture

• Lave, Jean; Wenger, Etienne (1991), Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation, Cambridge University Press
• Inessential Weirdnesses in Open Source Software (OSCON 2016)
• Hospitality, Jerks, and What I Learned (Sumana Harihareswara)
• Your Code Does Not Exist in a Vacuum (Becky Yoose)
• http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/
• “When you walk into a room, count” (Quinn Norton)
• On where we shelve gay history and more: Never Neutral: Libraries, technology, and, inclusion (Chris Bourg)
• On the limits of knowledge representation and what to do about that: What’s Next: The Radical, Unrealized Potential of Digital Humanities (Miriam Posner)
• xkcd 385: How It Works

Photo credits

• Welcome by alborzshawn (CC BY)
• tea Cup by Siddhesh Mangela (CC BY-SA)
• 241/365: Yellopen by bradleypjohnson (CC BY)
• Sage thrasher eggs and nest on Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge 02 by USFWS Mountain-Prairie (CC BY)
• wocintech (microsoft) – 57 by WOCinTech Chat (CC BY)
• Distribution Religion by The Art Gallery of Knoxville (CC BY-SA)
• GRES Acadêmicos do Salgueiro Carnaval 2010 080 by Carnaval.com Studios (CC BY)
• Remaining photos are via unsplash under CC0 (thanks, Unsplash artists!).

Design inspirations

• http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/2001.392/
• Josef Albers’ Homage to the Square.

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