How to kill an Open Source Community?

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OSS treasure workarounds? No way!

• Values as roots• Project with a community• Community breeding• People, people, people• Methodology

method?

Common Dream

Define Topics

Identify Core Team

Define Community Tooling & Processes

1st Review & Go-NO-Go

Content & Code Base Development

AdvertizeSustain

Extended/Periodic Review

Increase Membership

Monitor

Secret path

Sources: Stan Garfield, Richard McDermott, Karl Fogel, Jono Beacon, Eric Raymond.

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Community manager

Thank you!

Any Questions?

You can contact Open Source pirates at:

Stephane.Ribas@inria.fr

Michel.Cezon@inria.fr

Europe@ow2.org

Credits• Our slides & ideas comes from

! Our own experience,! Stan Garfield! Richard McDermott, ! Karl Fogel,! Eric Raymond,! HP Open Source Division,! OW2,• Many more !

We would like to thank all those guys & organizations without whom we would not have been able to create & use “those guidelines” in our current & future missions

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