[Devel] Welcome to OpenHatch version 0.11.06

[Asheesh Laroia]

Dear Devel,

I just pushed and tagged the last commits for OpenHatch 0.11.05. I plan to 
write up the release notes for the blog in the next day or two.,

That means that as of now, the current project is the June release. And 
whatever the rest of our lives contain. (-:

I want to make a special note about a blog post that Brandon Hays (AKA 
tehviking on IRC) wrote about a month ago: 
http://brandonhays.com/blog/2011/05/03/why-i-still-dont-contribute-to-open-source/

In his post, Brandon identifies a lot of the cultural and personality 
issues that drive me personally to contribute to this OpenHatch project we 
work on.

I want to also point you all to (our own) Karen Rustad's paper on 
"Outreach and Diversity in FOSS communities": 
http://littlegreenriver.com/stuffs/Outreach-Diversity-FOSS.html (29-page 
PDF at http://littlegreenriver.com/stuffs/Outreach-Diversity-FOSS.pdf ). I 
learned a lot from it. To me, it connects our work on making communities 
easier to enter (like the OpenHatch web app does), diversity-oriented 
outreach efforts like the Boston Python Workshop, and the statistics on 
under-representation of lots of groups of people in today's open source 
communities.

Working with you all is a pleasure. I'm looking forward to the next 
release. I'm hoping that some of you will take a minute to email me back 
and say what you do and don't like about the OpenHatch project, both in 
terms of what we're *doing* and in terms of your *involvement*.

-- Asheesh.