https://peertube.watch/videos/watch/4547cca4-c423-4828-867b-469f0b9f5ca5 As an open community grows the amount of external contributions increases with it. This is one of the primary benefits of open communities: the assimilation of progress from a wide and diverse pool of talent. However, care must be taken to ensure that the process of acceptance is free from social friction, lest arguments bring down and delay development of the project. This lightning talk covers the social issues open community maintainers and external contributors face during the submission of a patch or other change, why conflicts arise between parties, and how to handle difficult public disagreements to bring threads of discussions back on topic to focus on the benefit of the project and community. Synergy is when multiple parties come together to produce something greater than the sum of their parts, and it's what we will strive for in this talk. Speaker: William Breathitt Gray, Track: Lightning talks, Room: H.2215 (Ferrer), When: Saturday 3 February 2024, 11:00–11:15 (Brussels time), Schedule: FOSDEM 2024 event page, Slides & links FOSDEM24 - Synergy in Open Communities (slides), Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Belgium (CC BY 2.0 BE) (as stated in the FOSDEM video archive). Attribution: “Synergy in Open Communities” by William Breathitt Gray, FOSDEM 2024. Original recording: 2024/h2215/fosdem-2024-3120-synergy-in-open-communities.av1.webm from the FOSDEM video archive. This channel is an unofficial mirror; FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organised by the community for the community. Wed, 14 Oct 2026 05:04:52 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.watch https://peertube.watch/lazy-static/avatars/3b284627-b75f-409e-ac2e-10f4c2946f43.png https://peertube.watch/videos/watch/4547cca4-c423-4828-867b-469f0b9f5ca5 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.watch/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.