Communities Around a Technology: Why Being Free Is Not Enough
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How open-source projects succeed by building communities: the talk covers why being free is not enough and describes using Developer Relations (DevRel) tools and marketing techniques to grow a user community, encourage contributor collaboration, and increase a project’s popularity.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:08Why communities matter
- 3:42Developer shirt space limits
- 5:30Developer personas
- 8:52Negative personas
- 10:59Trends in communities
- 13:53Community orbits model
- 14:34Essential community setup
- 17:33Ideal vs real contributors
- 20:10Finding new contributors
- 22:53Why people join
- 24:18Health markers
- 26:45Resources
- 27:28Q&A
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