Spark Plug #12: Minimum Viable Governance
Stuff worth sharing for research and learning technologists
Happy Tuesday Wonderful People!
I am back in London💂♀️ and am trying really hard not to let the ☔️weather affect me! I am excited about three things this week:
🏛Minimum Viable Governance - this is a pretty awesome and very simple thing, it’s essentially the lowest effort guidance you must absolutely follow if you want to go from a good project to a great open source and scaled up community of contributors on GitHub. It deals with things like lean decision-making when number of contributors grows and a few other things. I really like this idea (borrowed from JFK) that Stephen Walli talks about in a talk last year at the Open Source Summit: “don’t ask what your community can do for you, but what you can do for your community”, and this is why you need good governance.
🎉My colleagues Adam Day and Andy Hails just got their paper describing SAGE’s Rejected Article Tracker published in JOSS!!!! Well done Adam and Andy!
🍭PyData conference is happening at the end of October, open for papers now! This is an incredible event for anyone working with data. Supported by big names and ran by NumFOCUS.
💰In funding news:
Hopin, one of the conference platforms where I’ve really enjoyed some pretty neat live music sessions (at the Mozilla Builders event last year!!!), has just raised $450 million in funding, just after raising $400 million a few months ago. They are only 2 years old and already need all this money, how big is the online conference scene now?! 🧐
Crehana, a tech upskilling startup based in Mexico City raised $70 million from several edtech investors and others. I keep wondering if tech upskilling and reskilling is like the dot com bubble.
Have a fantastic rest of the week! 🏄♀️