The OSS Management Skills Wheel describes 24 skills, divided into 4 core competencies, used by OSS community managers. It was initiated by Inessa Pawson and Sanket Verma during the 2023 Scientific Python Project Developer Summit (Seattle, WA).
Interpersonal
- Engagement
- Collaboration
- Moderation, mediation, and intervention
- Emotional integration
- Train and teach
- Mentoring
- Cultural competence
- Networking
Technical
- Git and GitHub
- Dev tools
- PR and issues
- Triage
OSS Management
- Growth and sustainability
- Governance
- Meeting facilitation
- Program design
- Change management
- Record keeping
- Event planning
- Recruiting
Communication
- Content creation and curation
- Speaking and presenting
- Advocacy
- Social media
Other useful skills
- Scaffolding
- Removing barriers/making it easy for the new contributors to join - could like the scientific python guide here (https://learn.scientific-python.org/contributors/)
- Removing barriers/making it easy for the maintainers to work
- Removing barriers/making it easy for the users to discover the documentation/tutorials
- And removing barriers and helping wherever necessary
- Dealing with conflicts in the community
- Between developers/maintainers
- CoC enforcing
- How to gracefully exit a project for a maintainer -
- How a CM can help it onboarding the next maintainer