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title: Scheduling your open source project
osem_url: https://osem.seagl.org/conferences/seagl2020/program/proposals/752
beginning: '2020-11-14T15:30:00.000-08:00'
end: '2020-11-14T16:00:00.000-08:00'
resources:
  internet_archive_identifier: SeaGL2020-Ben_Cotton-Scheduling_your_open_source_project
presenters:
- name: Ben Cotton
  osem_url: https://osem.seagl.org/users/1053
  gravatar_id: b4307c1a73d64411b27238e6da5ccc1e
  biography: Ben Cotton is a meteorologist by training, but weather makes a great
    hobby. Ben works as the Fedora Program Manager at Red Hat. He writes for Opensource.com
    as an Open Organization Ambassador and Correspondent (alumnus). Ben is a member
    of the Open Source Initiative and a supporter of Software Freedom Conservancy.
---

You can’t release on time if you don’t know what “on time” means. This talk covers several ways to build release schedules for projects — calendar-based, feature-based, and “meh, it’s done I guess”. Attendees will learn what considerations should go into planning a release schedule, how to deal with exceptions. It will also cover some tools that can be used to give the schedule a physical representation.
