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Lighten the load on your maintainers.

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Expedited Release

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Hackathon/Sprint Prep

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Intern/Mentor Support

Prepare your project to apply for Google Summer of Code or Outreachy, and prepare for applicants to have an easier developer onboarding experience

Initial Open Source Release

Triage, edit, and transfer bug reports, documentation, and TODO lists from your company's intranet to GitHub, GitLab, a wiki, etc.

Contributor Outreach

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Grant Applications

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Developer Onboarding Audit and Revamp

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About Changeset Consulting

Changeset provides short-term project management services to free and open source software projects. Need to expedite the releases of new versions of software, write developer onboarding and user documentation, triage and respond to bugs, clean out the code review queue, or prioritize tasks for upcoming work? Changeset Consulting lightens the load on your maintainers.

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Pricing

Pricing will vary per engagement; please contact Changeset for a free initial consultation and estimate. Changeset usually works remotely via email, IRC, VoIP, bugtrackers, wikis, and other tools you already use; in the rare cases where travel is necessary, it will be billed as an additional expense. Hourly work is available, starting at USD $45 per hour. Most engagements will take 20 or more hours and cost substantially less than the same work would on a per-hour basis; a 100-hour engagement starts at USD $2500.

Clients

Wikimedia

Harihareswara wrote MediaWiki's performance and architecture guidelines, revamped and ran its Requests for Comment process, wrote and triaged bug reports, broke bottlenecks in patch review, and ran hackathons. The new contributors and maintainers she recruited, mentored, and shepherded from 2011 to 2014 have made the MediaWiki community more sustainable and more diverse.

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Mailman

Harihareswara ran a 2015 PyCon sprint that expedited the GNU Mailman 3.0 release; she prioritized tasks, advised UI decisions, tested the installer and recruited additional testers, and wrote documentation. She also triaged and closed bugs in the multiple applications comprising the GNU Mailman suite, ported docs from an old wiki, rewrote developer docs, replaced hardcoded English messages with localization template calls, and wrote an LWN article publicizing the new release.

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Bicho

Harihareswara assessed the state of the codebase and the project's friendliness to new developers as of late 2013, producing a list of issues to fix.

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OpenHatch

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GNOME

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NYLUG

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WisCon

The volunteers who develop a web application to manage the scifi convention WisCon had a jumble of bug reports and feature requests in BaseCamp, Google Code, old emails and text notes. Over a few months in 2011, Harihareswara consolidated and organized those TODOs into a prioritized queue, and kept the team on one page via BaseCamp updates and a weekly conference call.

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AltLaw

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