These product bundles give you a flexible way to get started with personal coaching, personal training, and team training around Open Source software (OSS) community strategy and management.
Subscribing to a coaching or training package gives you, your leadership team, and Open Source project leaders support and flexibility. You can reach out anytime via email, messaging, or phone call for the help you need. And you also know you have scheduled sessions to keep aligned and cover everything.
Coaching and training is customized and delivered by an expert community management (CM) or community architect (CA) consultant. Where CM consultants focus on the “what” and “how” of practices, the CA consultant adds the “why” component.
Monthly rates are based on most common scenarios, additional costs may come in for resource-heavy needs. For example, multi-day travel requirements, a large leadership team to coach, and creating and running a multi-day workshop are outside of what is provided in a package. These three examples would have negotiated additional one-time or ongoing rates.
SAFE: Yes — As with all of our professional services, we are open to using SAFE agreements as part or whole of compensation.
NGO: Yes — A discounted rate may be negotiated for non-governmental and non-profit organizations (NGOs), including academic and research institutions.
OSS Project Leadership Coaching Package
US$2500+ monthly
- 1:1 and 1:few coaching sessions with OCA founder Karsten Wade
- Two scheduled sessions per month
- Unlimited contacts and replies
- Ideal for project leaders and maintainers who:
- May not have as much breadth of Open Source experience, or
- May have difficult challenges where good counsel and coaching can help, and
- Are looking at issues of community growth, scale, and sustainability
- Useful for addressing community strategy and leadership
- Begins an ongoing relationship, built at the speed of trust
- Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) may be involved, on a case-by-case basis
OSS Practice Training Package
US$1500+ monthly
- 1:few practice training sessions with a CM consultant
- Two+ scheduled practice sessions per month
- Unlimited contacts and replies
- Project intake and assessment
- Project leadership to identify areas of known concern to OCA
- OCA assesses project for areas of concern
- OCA prepares a verbal assessment based on findings
- Training sessions of side-by-side effort working with one or several project leaders or maintainers in an area of the project (virtual meeting)
Project Crosstraining Packages
These sessions are useful for helping teams as a group with aspects of their Open Practices.
- Initial project intake that includes interviews, assessments, and planning
- Ongoing discussion and practice with entire team and/or community
Project Fitness Test — Fit and Feel
US$2500+ per round
- Initial project health and fitness assessment followed with 1:many training sessions by a CA consultant
- 1/3rd of effort approximately for intake and assessment
- Two to four scheduled sessions for discussion and practice
- Fitness and improvement focus: User experience (UX) focused:
- What is the experience of your users and how can it be improved with Open Practices?
- “This Open Source software looks interesting, how do I try it out?”
- “Am I successful?”
- “Will I return?”
- What is the experience of your users and how can it be improved with Open Practices?
Project Fitness Test — Make and Create
US$5000+ per round
- Deeper project health and fitness assessment, with a personalized coaching and training session for the whole project community
- 1/3rd of effort approximately for intake and assessment, may include short interviews across functional areas
- Four+ sessions for discussion and practice
- Fitness and improvement focus: Developer and contributor experience
- What does an inexperienced contributor find if yours is their first attempt at contributing?
- What does an experienced contributor interested in working on your project find?
- Includes some of the “Fit and Feel” UX-focused fitness test
Project Assessment
US$10,000+ per assessment
- Full analysis and assessment of all aspects of a project, with a written report and presentation walking through the report
- Assessment includes complete health and fitness test and analysis of user and contributor experience
- Written report of the full assessment, including all findings, recommendations, and conclusions
- Presentation slidedeck that walks through the report
- Report delivery and presentation by consultant in a recorded online presentation and discussion
- Optional: Statement of work (SOW) proposal delivered with report