On OSD600 class on this Monday, we had a discussion on how to build a
software production pipeline that can strategically benefit from a vibrant open
source community from many aspects, such as big corporations, small shops,
students and so on.
We had a lot of ideas, which can be categorized into following aspects:
- Face to face gatherings: since the open source developers are from all of the world, it’s important and excited for them to have chances to gather together and have the face to face communication, such conferences, workshops and so on. They can increase participants’ enthusiasm to the open source community.
- Standards: good standards make participants easy to understand and follow, and keep workflow organized in open source communities.
- Technology: using programming languages that is newly developed.
- Onboarding: making it easier to understand for non-developer.
- Time management: making miles stones.
- Project planning: doing marketing research to find users and localization staff, use feedback to improve the project.
- Funding: big companies would sponsor for events held in open source community; hiring contributors.
- Partner : encouraging partnerships with business and educational organization, partnering with educational organization to have more targeting users and participants for the project
- Building open community: encouraging social media, use permissive license; putting on version control system, such as github or subvision; recognizing contributors, mentoring the community.
- Documentation: creating good guide and documentations for new developers, making video/audio guide for different learners.
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