Angie Byron on Cultivating Well-Being in Tech Communities Hacking Culture

In this episode Matthew Tift talks with Angie Byron, the Principal Community Manager at MongoDB and a Drupal Core Committer. They discuss a wide range of issues related to cultivating well-being in open-source communities, such as:


- Angie's early experiences in the Drupal project making cultural norms explicit, creating codes of conduct, and establishing procedures for conflict resolution

- How Drupal has positively impacted the lives of its members

- Contributing to something bigger than yourself

- Setting up structures to prevent burnout within communities

- Challenges in monitoring community health

- How her participation in the Drupal community affected her personal life, both positively and negatively

- How community wellness checks might benefit an open-source community

- How Drupal agencies support the overall well-being of the Drupal community

- Angie's transition to working in the MongoDB community

- The joy she gets helping individuals find their place in a community


Since 2006, Angie has done incredible work helping to grow the Drupal community. On the subject of what all of us can do to help cultivate well-being, her advice is "Look out for your people."


The theme music used in this episode comes from the Open Goldberg Variations.