What I learned at OSCON

A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure to attend the the 13th annual O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, OR. There were over 3,000 people in attendance, including "open source developers, hackers, experts, vendors, and users of all levels".

Jono Bacon, author of The Art of Community, was kind enough to chat with me about how the Zurmo community can continue to grow in a positive way. He had a great talk on dealing with conflict and burnout in Open Source communities.

Tony Santos lead a talk on Human Centered Design.We had a conversation about the Zurmo user experience. He gave us some great tips that we are going to implement over the course of the next few releases. Thanks to Tony's advice, we are going to make Zurmo even more intuitive for end users by implementing a usability testing methodology that he recommended.

I attended an office hour and talk lead by Amye Scavarda and Leslie Hawthorn on the unique work culture of Open Source organizations. It was fun and informative. I like these two. They know a lot about how different kinds of humans interact with one another and gave the audience great advice on how to manage harmonious communities.

In the end, I'm quite grateful to have attended and met the awesome people who were there. Thanks to the peeps above for taking the time to give their invaluable advice.

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