Flourishing FLOSS: Making Your Project Successful
summary
Shows concrete practices: a subscription funding model (Django REST Framework example: $15/month and $50–$400 for companies with advertising and 24‑hour priority support), a mentorship pipeline and issue labels to onboard newcomers (first-timers guided issues labeled "easy"), documentation requirements (screenshots, GIFs, step‑by‑step install that avoids “draw an owl” gaps), incentives like pins or challenge coins, tooling (GitHub, Slack/IRC, mailing lists), and hard triage rules such as close issues you won't fix in six months; Elasticsearch has >1,000 contributors, and the Contributor Covenant is the recommended CoC.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 3:20Who Have You Contributed To Open Source
- 11:04Monthly Project Reports
- 11:50Happiness Packets
- 14:13Good Documentation
- 26:17Contributor Covenant
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