Teardown 2024 - Managing Open Source Hardware Communities

Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

Open source hardware thrives when it is supported by a healthy community. There are some things everyone can do to get more traction for their project. In this talk Straithe from Great Scott Gadgets discusses community management techniques for Discord, GitHub, YouTube, and project websites.

Straithe is an open source maintainer and supporter. She works for Great Scott Gadgets as technical community manager. Her day-to-day involves community management, marketing, writing technical documentation, and anything else vaguely related. Outside of work she is a photographer, model, and dancer.

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