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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.

Scaling your developer community with plugins

Plugins are an excellent way to get more people contributing code to your project.

Greg Sutcliffe 01 Oct 2018 9 votes

What do open source and cooking have in common?

Learn the tasty way one open source meetup has evolved into a regular cooking meetup, too.

Florian Effenberger 07 Sep 2018 29 votes

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 30 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 21 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 31 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 49 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 59 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 69 votes 1 comment

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