Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2020

The GNOME Project to those not aware is an old project - from the late 90s. It grew up with a primarily engineering focus, an outdated development model, and a lack of structure. Despite that, the technology it has incubated is in widespread today. Growth is a problem - the continuing desire for resources is a common lament in large open source projects today. But the problem is more than just throwing developers at the problem. Scalable onboarding is a problem in its own right and it requires a deft touch. This talk will walk through the challenges of growing a project composed of many engineering teams, a media team, a documentation team, and a translation team with a host of skill sets not mentioned and the continuing work on the solution in development for over 6 months - methodology and ultimately implementation using the data built from the CHAOSS project on community health and aligning across each team dynamics.