Author / ben van 't ende

Community strategist and partner at Age of Peers. Certified scrum master. Former community manager for TYPO3 CMS. Organiser of CLSxEurope. Lessons learned and applied to Age of Peers.
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    Detox Your Project

    Recovery Methods To Get Your Project Back On Track   Make Community an Essential Part of Your Effort Building a community is essential for the success of any software project. Introducing collaboration…

  • Play To Innovate

    Challenge your thinking and create a new mindset An open and playful mind is a sound basis for innovation. Opening up the mind towards creativity is a challenge as we tend to…

  • From Sentiment Analysis to CHAOSS Theory

    The past few years Bitergia organised several FLOSS metrics events in conjunction with either CLS, OSCON or FOSDEM. Each event saw interesting speakers from organisations like Paypal, Zalando etc. This year there…

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    Why We Love Community (And You Should Too!)

    In my earlier article about Building Communities, I mentioned how some communities just grow into existence in an organic way, while others can be like a construction site for some time: carefully…

  • CLSxEurope 2016 Wrap up

    The support services Age of Peers delivers for open source and collaborative projects is based on three pillars, being marketing, media relations and community building. Marketing and media are parts of our…

  • InnerSource: An Open Source Approach to Community Culture

    At Age of Peers we see an increasing move of traditional ‘closed’ companies towards using collaborative processes, sometimes even called anti-processes. This move does not only involve internal processes, but in many…

  • Simple Guidance For You In Building Communities.

    Community building is comprised of practices geared toward the creation or enhancement of community among individuals within a common interest. Communities can grow organically. but once organic growth stops, focus in some…