how to kill a community
DESCRIPTION
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.TRANSCRIPT
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?
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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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