Carol Smith is a program and content leader. She has worked at Microsoft, GitHub, and Google. She is also an emeritus board director of the Open Source Initiative. She has a degree in Journalism from California State University, Northridge, and is an avid reader, cook, jigsaw puzzler, and cinephile.

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The Catch-22 of Being a Non-Engineer

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My first triathlon

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The "Peloton" in Open Source

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The Set of Programmers: How Math Restricts Us

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Transitions

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Imposter Syndrome and Why Project Management Isn’t a “Real Job”

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Project Management for the Rest of Us

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Managing a Community is Hard to Do

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What My New Dog Has Been Teaching Me About My Work

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Important qualities and best practices for project managers

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A Fun Update

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Google Code-in and Why I Care

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Making My Way in Open Source