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Hacking Culture: Angie Byron on Cultivating Well-Being in Tech Communities

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In this episode Matthew Tift talks with Angie Byron, the Principal Community Manager at MongoDB and a Drupal Core Committer. They discuss a wide range of issues related to cultivating well-being in open-source communities, such as:

Angie's early experiences in the Drupal project making cultural norms explicit, creating codes of conduct, and establishing procedures for conflict resolution

How Drupal has positively impacted the lives of its members

Contributing to something bigger than yourself

Setting up structures to prevent burnout within communities

Challenges in monitoring community health

How her participation in the Drupal community affected her personal life, both positively and negatively

How community wellness checks might benefit an open-source community

How Drupal agencies support the overall well-being of the Drupal community

Angie's transition to working in the MongoDB community

The joy she gets helping individuals find their place in a community

Since 2006, Angie has done incredible…

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