Community Management Literature?

[inode0]

I am wondering if our community leaders (Paul, Max, Greg, anyone else)
might have one or two books they recommend that bear in important ways
on community management that might be of interest to ambassadors?
Please share if you do as I need some winter reading.

Thanks,
John

[Max Spevack]

On Sun, 23 Nov 2008, inode0 wrote:

>  I am wondering if our community leaders (Paul, Max, Greg, anyone
> else) 
>  might have one or two books they recommend that bear in important ways 
>  on community management that might be of interest to ambassadors? 
>  Please share if you do as I need some winter reading. 
The Starfish and the Spider.  Everyone should read it.

--Max

[inode0]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 7:10 AM, Max Spevack <mspevack(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  On Sun, 23 Nov 2008, inode0 wrote:
>
> > I am wondering if our community leaders (Paul, Max, Greg, anyone else)
> > might have one or two books they recommend that bear in important ways on
> > community management that might be of interest to ambassadors? Please share
> > if you do as I need some winter reading.
>
>  The Starfish and the Spider.  Everyone should read it. 
Hi Max,

I found this under the tree yesterday and couldn't put it down today.
Hardly a page went by without finding myself thinking about how this
applies to Fedora, Red Hat, and the organization I spend my days
working for.

I imagine you have spent some time thinking about how these ideas are
expressed in both Fedora and Red Hat individually and perhaps in a
sense combined as well. I'm really very curious about how you view the
Fedora project within this framework? In particular, do you view
Fedora as a hybrid organization?

Whether you care to answer those questions or not thank you very much
for recommending this thought provoking, entertaining book. And by all
means feel free to recommend others.

John

[Neville A. Cross]

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 7:46 PM, inode0 <inode0(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 7:10 AM, Max Spevack
> <mspevack(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
> > On Sun, 23 Nov 2008, inode0 wrote:
> >
> >> I am wondering if our community leaders (Paul, Max, Greg, anyone else)
> >> might have one or two books they recommend that bear in important ways on
> >> community management that might be of interest to ambassadors? Please share
> >> if you do as I need some winter reading.
> >
> > The Starfish and the Spider.  Everyone should read it.
>
>  Hi Max,
>
>  I found this under the tree yesterday and couldn't put it down today.
>  Hardly a page went by without finding myself thinking about how this
>  applies to Fedora, Red Hat, and the organization I spend my days
>  working for.
>  
I am also wishing to thanks for the recomendation. I ordered when I
saw the post. It put my brain to work how to improve the local fedora
group and the local FOSS community.

If some one have a book like this on knowledge management I will be
apreciated any tip.

Best regards and happy new year.

-- 
Neville
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Yn1v
Linux User # 473217

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[David Nalley]

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 8:46 PM, inode0 <inode0(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 7:10 AM, Max Spevack
> <mspevack(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
> > On Sun, 23 Nov 2008, inode0 wrote:
> >
> >> I am wondering if our community leaders (Paul, Max, Greg, anyone else)
> >> might have one or two books they recommend that bear in important ways on
> >> community management that might be of interest to ambassadors? Please share
> >> if you do as I need some winter reading.
> >
> > The Starfish and the Spider.  Everyone should read it.
>
>  Hi Max,
>
>  I found this under the tree yesterday and couldn't put it down today.
>  Hardly a page went by without finding myself thinking about how this
>  applies to Fedora, Red Hat, and the organization I spend my days
>  working for.
>
>  I imagine you have spent some time thinking about how these ideas are
>  expressed in both Fedora and Red Hat individually and perhaps in a
>  sense combined as well. I'm really very curious about how you view the
>  Fedora project within this framework? In particular, do you view
>  Fedora as a hybrid organization?
>
>  Whether you care to answer those questions or not thank you very much
>  for recommending this thought provoking, entertaining book. And by all
>  means feel free to recommend others.
>
>  John
>
>  --
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>  Fedora-ambassadors-list(a)redhat.com
>  https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list
>  
Like John I also recently found this book under the tree - and
unfortunately I have only had time to get half way through it with all
of the family things going on. That said I am astounded. This was a
great book recommendation. (from Greg on his blog and Max in this
thread).

[Max Spevack]

On Fri, 26 Dec 2008, inode0 wrote:

>  I'm really very curious about how you view the Fedora project
> within 
>  this framework? In particular, do you view Fedora as a hybrid 
>  organization? 
I'm going to have to thumb through it again the next time I'm in Raleigh 
before I can say anything too intelligent, but my gut tells me that 
Fedora is definitely a hybrid-like organization.

We try to push authority, accountability, and decision-making as far to 
the edges as possible, but there is still a bit of a hierarchy in terms 
of committees, and in some cases the people who are paid by RH to work 
on Fedora full time -- I think Fedora Infrastructure is the perfect 
hybrid example.  Everyone is a leader and a doer, but Mike McGrath holds 
a "first among equals" kind of a role.

It's been a long time since I flipped through this book and chatted 
about it w/ Greg.  I might be getting terms wrong.  I'll refresh my 
memory when I'm in Raleigh in January.

I'm glad people are enjoying the book though!

--Max