habari

spread the news

ha·bar·i - noun
Definition — Swahili greeting: What's the news?


Partnering with PHPWomen

The Habari Community is proud to announce our partnership with PHPWomen in their efforts to help bring more people into the larger community of Open Source Software. We have always said "Community is more important than code." The Habari Community makes a concentrated effort to ensure our community is open and inclusive for all developers and users. We believe we were chosen to be an inaugural partner in this program because we have already put …Read More

Topic of the Month: Ownership

This will, hopefully, be the first in a series of monthly topics to address within the Habari Community. The goal of each monthly topic is to encourage community involvement, stir discussion and help us grow.

Ownership is a tough subject in the Habari Community. The ethos that all contributors are valuable, often leads to the belief that full consensus must be reached before action is taken. However, this can frequently lead to things stalling out completely…Read More

Habari Party 2009

We're three weeks away from the first official world-wide Habari gathering. It's a fantastic opportunity for far-flung members of the Habari Community to meet face to face. We've gone through several titles for it, but in the end settled on "Habari Party" because, in the end, the goal of this project is to have fun creating the best dang blogging engine out there.

Habari Party 2009 will be taking place in Columbus, OH on September 12,…Read More

OLF Recap

Yesterday, several members of the Habari community gathered at Ohio Linux Fest.
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We had a table set up with a banner, some information cards, and some stickers as well. Manning the table were Chris J Davis, Owen Winkler, Scott Merrill, Sean T Evans, and Robert Deaton. Sean's wife Nicole also joined us. Response was incredible. We expected some interest in the project but were nearly overwhelmed with the stream of people who were interested in …Read More