Organizing events is not rocket science, but putting on successful events that are also sustainable is much harder than it seems. Some key practices apply to all types of events, but you also need to keep in mind what kind of conference you're organizing. Business events and community-focused conferences are more different than you might think.

I recently talked to Rick Turoczy and learned that he's an introvert like I am. While neither of us really likes going to conferences, we both find tremendous amount of value in attending them regardless. On the latest My Open Source Experience podcast episode, Rick told me that he's not just attending events, but is also organizing them both professionally and as a volunteer.

I learned these 4 things:

- Even if you're an introvert, attending events is to your benefit

- If you're only focusing on attendance numbers, you probably haven't fully thought it through what the value of your event really is

- Optimize for over communicating

- An event isn't just the dates it's scheduled for

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Theoretically teams and individuals have everything to allow and encourage them within companies, and yet, the bigger a company gets the more tasks and work get duplicated leading to increasing costs. Collaboration between teams and departments is often more challenging than it needs to be, so it is not that surprising that these companies might have a harder time getting involved in the open source projects they are relying on.

In this episode of the My Open Source Experience podcast open source experts talk about the challenges and solutions they found to enable and encourage more collaboration within their companies and open source communities alike.

Learn more about:

- How OSS collaboration ensures smooth relationships with stakeholders with Austen Bryan

- Overcoming internal collaboration challenges with InnerSource with Wolfgang Gehring

- Using OSS and working on it upstream with Stormy Peters

- InnerSource vs Open Source with Magnus Buhrgard

- Common OSS fears and practices with Ashan Senevirathne

- You need allies to succeed with Philipp Ahmann

- How to build an open source strategy in the public sector with Federico Gonzalez Waite

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The collaborative nature of open source is often overlooked by both individuals and companies ate first. Contrary to that, many projects and initiatives only succeed when they are developed in an open and collaborative environment. Think about successful, long-living programming languages as an example.

In this My Open Source Experience podcast episode Ildiko is chatting with Brad Chamberlain about the Chapel project. CHapel is an open source programming language that Brad and the community has been developing and maintaining for over 20 years now. It was originally created for supercomputers and HPC use cases to provide a language that is more efficient for machines and programmers alike. However, over the years PCs and laptops evolved to the level of parallelism that Chapel became more widely usable in the industry. Have you tried it already?

Learn more about:

- The Chapel programming language

- The consideration and study behind the Chapel project being created as open source

- Creating an open source project before GitHub existed

- Sometimes you need to aim for the skies over simplicity

- Moving Chapel under the High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF)

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