Flourishing FLOSS: Making Your Project Successful
summary
Argues that code alone doesn’t make a project succeed and shows concrete practices: a fundraising model that funds full‑time maintenance with $15–$400/month patrons and requires about 70 emails for 1–2 sponsors, regular monthly progress reports that publish finances and plans, and operational tooling (Slack/IRC/Disqus/GitHub/Twitter), sprints, mentorship programs, ticket triage rules, and an enforced Code of Conduct (use the Contributor Covenant). These measures are presented as what actually grows contributors and sustainability.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 4:17What is an Open Source Software Community?
- 6:47Examples of Open Source Software Projects
- 11:09Good communication and transparency are important!
- 12:09Say thank you!
- 13:14Without documentation, no one would know how to use your project
- 14:55Without marketing, no one would know about your project
- 16:52Without people working on ticket triage, bugs wouldn't get fixed.
- 19:33Community is key!
- 20:30Diversity matters!
- 21:08Open Source projects need contributions from people of all skill levels and expertise.
- 26:29Your project needs a Code of Conduct...
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