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