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Community at Scale A Tactical Overview of How to Grow Your FOSS Project Leslie Hawthorn (@lhawthorn) - Lydia Pintscher (@nightrose) Why does it matter? by studio-d on flickr (cc by-nc) Your community is a snowflake (and so are ours) Don't


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Community at Scale

A Tactical Overview of How to Grow Your FOSS Project

Leslie Hawthorn (@lhawthorn) - Lydia Pintscher (@nightrose)

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Why does it matter?

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by studio-d on flickr (cc by-nc)

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Your community is a snowflake

(and so are ours)

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Don't go on like nothing is happening

(act now)

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Choose your infrastructure wisely

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Make sure the project survives when people leave

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Find areas with a low bus-factor pro- actively

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Create a legal entity

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Fiduciary Licensing Agreements

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Recreate community feeling

  • n a smaller scale
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Make it possible to not know everything

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Pro tip: community story time

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Make it easy to join

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Make it easy to leave

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Know your dependencies

(and diversify)

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Questions?!

@lhawthorn @nightrose