For more information and to register, please see: http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/events/2009-12-07_community/progr...

Open development thrives on a diverse community of participants who engage in the project and also attract others with new skills and resources. Such a diverse community also increases project sustainability as the project can survive the exit of participants. However an engaged community does not just form itself, rather it requires active and continuous encouragement, particularly from the core project team. This workshop will help you understand how open development works and provide you with a practical appreciation of the skills, practices and mechanisms that encourage an engaged community.

At the end of this workshop you will:

* Understand how open development works and know the common community structures
* Be familiar with the skills and processes that encourage community participation
* Develop ideas for improving the community friendliness of a specific project

This workshop will be of interest to those involved in a development project and who wish to benefit from improved community engagement or wider participation through open development. For example you may wish to become sustainable past the current funding round or expand your user base into new areas. In particular we think the following will be most interested:

* project managers
* software developers
* researchers whose projects produce software outputs

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