Community management

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.

How to manage casual contributors to open source projects

Try these strategies to better utilize contributions from your project's episodic volunteers.

Is the rise of open source connected to a decline in selfishness?

Studies show that the emerging workforce has a renewed focus on purpose. What does that trend mean for open source?

Community building with a Q&A vs. online forum

Working on building an online community? Here's how to choose the platform that's right for you.

7 mistakes you're probably making

The most common mistakes open source projects make and how to avoid them.

Navigating the challenges of international teamwork

Building Puppet's unofficial forge community

They had a simple idea: When modules go unmaintained, adopt it and give merge access to anyone who contributes.

GitHub launches Open Source Friday

Developers from 24 Pull Requests and GitHub created Open Source Friday as a weekly reminder to give back to the open source projects that power our daily work.

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