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Often as an Open Source project grows there becomes a need to allocate funding resources to specific projects, teams or initiatives. It can be challenging to do this in an open and transparent way, effectively ring fencing the funds for specific purposes.
Here’s how we achieved this with Open Collective, some of the gotchas we encountered, and how it’s working out for us.

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With the way things are going it is more likely than not that event organisers are going to have to deal with at least one attendee testing positive for covid during their event at some point.
Here are some helpful tips to make sure you are ready to deal with that eventuality based on my own experience of testing positive when attending an event abroad in December 2021.

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Have you ever watched discussions happening in your community where someone shares a thought or opinion, or responds with a message which does not appear to be thought through or doesn’t seem to have any substance?
Often, we frown on this kind of discussion and the person can even be ridiculed for their lack of understanding or clarity - posts get closed down or threads deleted for lack of substance.
How, then, do we cater for those in our communities - like myself - who are external thinkers?

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You've got a great idea and you're thinking that building a community around your idea would be a great fit .. but where do you start?
Often communities are launched without much background preparation, and many fail to thrive as a result. There are many useful resources out there to help you with starting, growing and managing a community - a few of which I'll outline below.

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This weekend I had the great pleasure of attending my first BrightonSEO event - a twice-yearly gathering of the great and the good (and definitely the geeky) from the SEO and digital marketing world.
I attend quite a lot of conferences within the Joomla community, but it's not often that I head to a conference in a venue I've never visited, with a community I've not really engaged with before. Needless to say, being a wheelchair user going into unfamiliar territory by myself can be a little daunting!