Testimonials from participants in the Birdaro training program
This training helps build an understanding of the important social aspects to technical work. The specific regard to distributed team work and coordination in open source technical projects is unique.
Birdaro trainee
Governance and documentation 2025
The amount of effort, care, and love you put to this program is so inspiring, I could see that from day 1. Your dedication and how you reach to people felt very welcoming, and motivating.The professionalism you put in the creation and carrying of the classes is so great. That is not something I see everywhere. My experience with the program has been extraordinary. If something, I regret not having more time to focus a bit more on it.
Birdaro trainee
Governance and documentation 2025
Most value so far: having the time to develop shared language and framework with my team, and to be able to start thinking about implementing these concepts into our existing projects.
Birdaro trainee
Governance and documentation 2025
The attention to guidance documents, general organization, workflow of the Zoom calls, sharing of slides and materials is unmatched to any training program I’ve done before.
Birdaro trainee
Governance and documentation 2025
I was coming to learn but I think I’ll have gained even more than that with the new connections.
Birdaro trainee
Governance and documentation 2025
…hearing that other projects, regardless of funding or maturity level, are also tackling similar questions has been really useful.
Birdaro trainee
Governance and documentation 2025
The chance to hear and learn about other projects outside our immediate community has also been inspiring and I’d like to have more opportunities to learn and meet with others in the cohort.
Birdaro trainee
Governance and documentation 2025
We’re actively replanning our basic documentation to incorporate what we’ve learning about feedback, decision making, and community structure. Not just updating our language into a consistent vocabulary with the new terms we have but also some structural changes in the future.
Birdaro trainee
Governance and documentation 2025
I really enjoyed the lightning talks. Hearing how others have solved problems and what motivated them to join the training provided valuable context. Even if a strategy presented may not be relevant to my work/project, I still took away useful ideas and inspiration.
Birdaro trainee
Governance and documentation 2025
I really valued getting to see others’ progress on their playbooks throughout the course. Regardless of how their project status related to mine, it was helpful context to see how people thought about building and sharing their playbook.
Birdaro trainee
Governance and documentation 2025
The course gave me the information I need to define and organize the governance of our community.
Birdaro trainee
Governance and documentation 2025
It has been interesting to see how different members apply the frameworks to different contexts according to their area of focus, although it means we’re not always working in sync, it shows the frameworks are flexible and a useful shared language for approaching problems.
Birdaro trainee
Governance and documentation 2025
