In addition to my talk about fixing the leadership gap threatening open source projects at the recent ASF Community Over Code in Glasgow, I also had a talk about good governance. Regular readers of this blog know that I’m passionate about open source project governance. Good governance can mean the difference between having a sustainable open source project and one that falls apart.

Watch it on YouTube or get the slides.

In this talk, I started with a quick definition of governance, since the word can mean very different things in different contexts, and this talk was focused on open source project governance. During the rest of the talk, I covered topics that I’ve also written about here on this blog, so I’ll link to those previous posts, instead of covering them here again.

• Governance Part 1: Why is it important?
• Governance Part 2: Defining Governance
• Governance Part 3: New Contributors and Pathways to Leadership
• Governance Part 4: Creating Intentional Culture
• Governance Part 5: Overall Ownership of a Project

I hope you enjoy watching the talk as much as I enjoyed giving it!  If you want feedback or help with open source project governance or related OSPO topics, I’m available for consulting engagements.

As with everything I write, this was written by a human without the use of LLMs or other AI assistance.