Fireside Chat: Navigating growth and scale in open communities | Crall, Kateregga, Mineault, Yang
Channel: The Turing Way
Date: 02/08/2022

Fireside Chat on 29 July 2022: “Navigating growth and scale to sustain open communities”.

As the open movement grows into its third decade (after itself emerging from the free software movement of the 1980s), numerous open knowledge projects and communities of practice have emerged to address domain-specific issues through open source software, open data, and open scientific practices. The digital nature of many of these projects – and the communities that created them – have often enabled growth at rapid rates, enabling people to collaborate across borders and at scales never previously possible. With this growth also emerged challenges of different kinds, such as around sustainability, governance, and maintenance. This Fireside chat brings together voices from different projects and communities across the open ecosystem to talk more about the shared questions, challenges, and trade-offs that come with ‘scaling’ communities – and steps they have taken within their own communities to address them.

Chaired by Alycia Crall (The Carpentries) and Anne Lee Steele (The Turing Way), this panel will feature insights from Geoffrey Kateregga (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team), Patrick Mineault (xcorr neuroAI consulting) and Selene Yang (Wikimedia Foundation, Geochicas - OpenStreetMap). These individuals will represent different expertise and insights from working with and participating in open communities at scale. (read their bios below). We will also facilitate open discussions with attendees to learn about their perspectives on the topic via a shared document (links shared upon registration).

This event is hosted by The Turing Way - a community-led handbook on data science and research and The Carpentries - an organisation teaching coding and data science skills to researchers worldwide.

The Fireside Chat series features experts, champions and their projects from across different international communities in reproducibility, open research, ethics, collaboration and everything in between. We invite interested communities to get in touch with us to host a next session (email: theturingway@gmail.com) and help catalyse cross-community collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Full bios and information about the speakers available here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/navigating-growth-and-scale-to-sustain-open-communities-tickets-360328802147