Being Successful at Open Source
summary
Pick one or two channels and actually show up, ask people what did you struggle with and fix the top pain so retention climbs, then ask what cool stuff are you building and amplify demos and blog posts. Replace noisy docs with small concrete fixes (changing an obscure minified error to a minified exception message saved many users). Curate and promote others’ posts via community roundups to create perceived activity that becomes real growth.
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chapters (21)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:20Why listen to me
- 2:07What are the steps
- 2:37How do you get users
- 3:28Engaging with the community
- 3:41Where to engage
- 3:56The biggest mistake
- 4:50Favorite medium
- 5:57IRC
- 6:46Why did you struggle
- 12:58How to educate users
- 15:16What are you building with the library
- 16:56Demos
- 17:32React Native Meetings
- 18:54Demo Driven Development
- 20:36C Code
- 21:17Writing blog posts
- 22:23Community roundups
- 22:38Making the community feel active
- 24:53External praises carry value
- 27:10Conclusion
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