This presentation proposes an overall approach to community development, a step-by-step guide for community development, tips on specific community issues, and a set of tools for project leaders who are willing to organize, build and sustain an OSS community. This presentation includes concrete examples and real life use cases.

1. How to kill an Open Source
Community?
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10. OSS treasure workarounds?
No way!
• Values as roots
• Project with a community
• Community breeding
• People, people, people
• Methodology

11. method?
1st Review & Content & Code Base Development
Go-NO-Go
Define Community
Tooling & Processes Advertize
Sustain
Secret
path Extended/Periodic Review
Identify
Core Team
Define Topics Increase Membership
Common Dream Monitor
Sources: Stan Garfield, Richard McDermott,
Karl Fogel, Jono Beacon, Eric Raymond.

12. OSS healthy communities?
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13. OSS communities failure?
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14. Community
manager

15. Thank you!
Any Questions?
You can contact Open Source pirates at:
Stephane.Ribas@inria.fr
Michel.Cezon@inria.fr
Europe@ow2.org

16. Credits
• Our slides & ideas comes from
! Our own experience,
We would like to thank all
! Stan Garfield
those guys & organizations
! Richard McDermott,
without whom we would not
! Karl Fogel,
have been able to create
! Eric Raymond,
& use “those guidelines” in our
! HP Open Source Division,
current & future missions
! OW2,
• Many more !

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