Making a Splash with your Open Source Project
summary
Distinguishes two concrete release types: a "you might find this useful" throwaway versus a committed project with maintenance expectations, and shows what to do for the latter — a simple out-of-box tutorial, documented contributor path and CI so newcomers hit the kick-ass moment fast. Argues for ecosystem fit (the tractor three‑point linkage), backward-compatibility policy, and active outreach; cites scale like 4,000 Django packages and community incentives such as challenge coins that actually bring contributors in.
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chapters (23)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:21Cargo Cults
- 2:29Underpants Gnomes
- 3:12The Simple
- 4:29Throwing Things Out
- 5:26Communication
- 6:50Project Changes
- 7:35User Experience
- 8:32Attenuation
- 9:49Conversion Funnels
- 11:14Backwards Compatibility
- 11:48LongTerm Maintenance
- 13:42Ecosystem
- 14:59Tools
- 15:34Django Ecosystem
- 16:38Importance of Communication
- 18:09History with Jango Evolution
- 19:05Sales and Marketing
- 19:30Wild Aspects
- 19:57Why was Django successful
- 21:18Cricket
- 21:43Beware
- 22:01How you are successful as an open source project
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