References for my alterconf 2015 talk

I gave a talk at Seattle alterconf last weekend called “So You Want to Get Started in Open Source: Advice for the Non-Normative”. As usual when I research and write a talk, I end up with way more interesting material than I can fit into the time allotted. In this case, since most of the things I read are readily available online, I decided to post a list of my references. Everything on this list is something that I think is educational, thought-provoking, or true to my experience; inclusion on this list does not indicate agreement on my part. Open source culture is a huge topic, and this list barely scratches the surface.

• Anything Selena Deckelmann writes about open source is worth reading.
• Sumana Harihareswara often writes about FLOSS and open source culture. The first writing of hers I read was a guest post at Crooked Timber called Codes of Conduct and the Trade-Offs of Copyleft. It’s about, among other things, situating constraints on behavior on a spectrum from contract to governance.
• Cate Huston, Discoveries About OSS Culture.
• Steve Klabnik, How To Be an Open Source Gardener.
• Sam Kottler, On OSS and the Individual.
• Model View Culture had an entire issue on open source culture.
• Denise Paolucci, Teaching People How to Fish.