How to Talk About your Open Source Project so People Get It
summary
Four practical rules: identify the target user and their pain, be ruthlessly specific, use familiar terminology, and lead with outcomes. Concrete examples: a project that increases the speed of containerized I/O-bound applications versus vague “revolutionize data storage,” or a security tool that focuses on mitigating risk from software supply chain vulnerabilities for AWS PCI workloads. Start by interviewing true believers, condense the result into a 2–8 word description, then update README and website with outcome-driven lines like never write another yaml script.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:58Respect for the Open Source Community
- 2:42Warning Signs
- 4:37Four Steps
- 5:13Who are you talking to
- 6:24Be specific
- 6:48Examples
- 9:31Terminology
- 10:12Continuous Operations
- 11:45Outcomes
- 12:50Where to Start
- 14:14Isolate Outcomes
- 15:25Spread the Word
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