Running an open source project like a professional
summary
Explains a practical checklist for launching and sustaining an open source project: choose a license from FSF/OSI lists, map users and adjacent projects, set governance and roles, reserve domains/accounts, plan funding and who controls bank accounts, and pick CI and other tooling; proposes three engagement tiers (low touch, medium touch, high touch), points to a downloadable “measuring open source health” paper, notes Red Hat’s upstream‑first model and involvement in 30+ standards bodies, and cites Ansible’s ecosystem of 100,000 related projects as a health signal.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction
- 4:15Launching an open source project
- 25:48Open source strategy
- 45:30Project health metrics
- 51:27Q&A
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