Managing the Unmanageable
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Covers practical community-building for open-source projects, focusing on turning users into contributors, handling negative publicity and controversial opinions, and managing distributed teams and diversity. Names GNOME, KDE and Linux distributions as examples of larger communities smaller projects must integrate with, and discusses internal community processes, tools to manage a project's public perception, and resources for further learning.
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