Cultivating an Open-Source Community
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This document provides tips for cultivating an open source community, including choosing a good name, having a clear roadmap, 100% test coverage, contributing to Rails Admin, code reviews, documentation, using pictures and videos, showing examples, stating your quirks, picking a good license, mailing lists, IRC channels, hosting bugmashes, never saying RTFM/RTFC, making decisions in public, not leaving people hanging, giving credit, and asking for help. The tips are presented as ways to build and maintain an open and collaborative community around an open source project.
Cultivating an Open-Source Community
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