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Challenges projects face when going open source
Challenges
- Mindset
- Choosing a license and it's implications to your project
- Legal aspects
- Adoption Aspects
- Dependencies requirements
- Identifying governance characteristics of your project ?
- should we describe some places where you can open source your project ? (e.g. GitHub, foundations, pay to play foundations) ?
- Choosing a license and it's implications to your project
- Building a community
- Why building a community ?
- Community growth
- Community involvement lifecycle
- Community involvement
- Documentation
- Testing
Action plan
- Change your mindset: Communicate and Listen!!!
- License check for your libraries / dependencies
- Prepare your project
- Choose your license
- Prepare basic documentation for users
- Prepare an a how-to guide for contributors
- Identify the common Vision and the benefits for the Community
- Share your initial Roadmap
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- Prepare your project to be adopted from anyone
- Improve the overall quality of your project
Building a community
Challenges
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- A multiethnic Community bring different cultures with more value and ideas
- An international project typically has more contributors and a long life
Why open governance
Challenges
- Trust on your Community :)
- Give responsabilities
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