Introduction

Overview

Questions

• What makes for an effective development community that is also enjoyable to work in?

Objectives

• Understand how this module fits in with other, more technically oriented modules in contributing to building an effective collaborative community.

This lesson serves as an introduction the the other lessons on Working Collaboratively:

• Tools for Working Collaboratively
  • Collaborative Git
  • Issues and Pull Requests
  • Documentation
• Licensing
• Project Management
• Code Reviews and Pair Programming

The slides for this introduction can be found here.

Key Points

• Building an effective collaborative community involves Social, Socio-technical and Technical aspects.
• Other modules cover some of the technical aspects, such as Project Management, collaborative use of Git and GitHub, Code Reviews and Pair Programming.