How To Kill A Community
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This presentation proposes an overall approach to community development, a step-by-step guide for community development, tips on specific community issues, and a set of tools for project leaders who are willing to organize, build and sustain an OSS community. This presentation includes concrete examples and real life use cases.
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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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Thank you!
Any Questions?
You can contact Open Source pirates at:
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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