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Episode #58: Bob McWhirter of Red Hat


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In this episode, Bob McWrirter of Red Hat, talks about communication as in artifacts created by tooling, remote workers as black sheep, and gaining notoriety via open-source.

Show Notes:

Bob McWhirter (twitter / blog / Red Hat / Project Odd)

00:47- Introduction & Background

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  • Has worked at Red Hat for the past 6 years
  • Has been in the remote industry for 15
  • Lives in rural Virginia
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    01:40 – History with remote work

    02:46 – Red Hat

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    • JBoss
    • Codehaus
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      03:58 – Daily life

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      • IRC
      • Jira
      • Google Hangouts
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        05:13 – Open-source experience & team management

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        • Communication: artifacts created by tooling
        • Team memory
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          07:58 – Commit messages

          09:26 – Email/mailing lists

          10:04 – Dividing work

          11:48 – Poor remote work experiences

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          • Remote Worker, Distributed Team: Bob McWhirter
          • Remote workers = black sheep

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            15:21 – Reasons to work remotely

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            • Flexibility
            • Hours
            • Measuring production

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              17:42 – Building notoriety via open-source

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