How to Grow and Mentor an Open Source Community & Achieve Collaboration with Over 170...
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Project grows from zero to 16,000 GitHub stars with ~5,000 forks, 318 contributors and 47 releases by prioritizing a clear value proposition, GitHub workflows, tests and documentation, mentoring via Google Summer of Code and Apache incubator processes, and recruiting users from conferences and media. Community builds a contributor hierarchy, formal contribution guides and voting processes, and lands adoption in 170 listed corporations; persistence over years and active promotion prove decisive for sustained growth.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction to mentoring open source
- 1:24Apache maturity model explained
- 3:12Defining project value and growth
- 5:21Community recognition and effort
- 9:15Commercial opportunities from communities
- 9:59Choosing programming languages for ecosystems
- 11:48Setting up project infrastructure
- 12:55Importance of documentation
- 15:49Building community hierarchy
- 20:46Promotion and collaboration strategies
- 23:13Persistence in open source
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