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The success of an open source project is strongly tied to the community that supports and contributes to it. Our community management articles explore common problems, solutions, and tactics to create vital, productive open source communities.

5 questions to answer before building a community

Understanding the different types of communities and how they can help your organization is the key...

Michael Hall 19 Jul 2018 18 votes 1 comment

3 big steps toward building authentic developer communities

How do you build community while also meeting the needs of an organization? These three steps can...

Leslie Hawthorn 18 Jul 2018 10 votes 4 comments

Open community, gardeners and food co-op

Is BDFL a death sentence?

A few days ago, Guido van Rossum , creator of the Python programming language and Benevolent...

Jason Baker (Red Hat) 16 Jul 2018 14 votes 2 comments

Projects that make their rules explicit would see more participation

New research indicates that more projects and communities are making their governance models more...

Javier Canovas 03 Apr 2018 35 votes 1 comment

6 ways a thriving community will help your project succeed

Innovation, research, marketing, support—a community can provide all these things, if you take care...

Alessio Fattorini 15 Mar 2018 46 votes 2 comments

A plan for rebooting an open source project

Here's a simple plan to get your project back on the right path.

Amye Scavarda (Red Hat) 13 Mar 2018 50 votes 1 comment

Community metrics: The challenge behind the numbers

Although metrics are an important way to understand community members' effectiveness, they're only...

Ildiko Vancsa 26 Feb 2018 48 votes

5 rules for having genuine community relationships

Open organizations can benefit from strong, passionate communities—but only if they treat those...

Alessio Fattorini 22 Feb 2018 63 votes 3 comments

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