A presentation by Bertrand LeRoy at the OuterConf2013 regarding the challenges and success in building the Orchard OSS CMS.

1. Building the Orchard
Community
Bertrand Le Roy
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2. The current state of Orchard
480,000 downloads

3. The current state of Orchard
0.01% = ~37,000 sites

4. The current state of Orchard
Big,
important
sites

5. The current state of Orchard
500 modules and themes
downloaded 4,100,000 times

6. The current state of Orchard
7,000 commits made by 82 contributors

7. The current state of Orchard
2,500 bugs closed

8. The current state of Orchard
200,000 lines of code

9. The current state of Orchard
70,000 forum posts
1,200 Stack Overflow questions

10. The current state of Orchard
Belgium, China, France, Italy, Hungary, The Netherlands,
Portugal, Russia, Spain, and Switzerland

11. The current state of Orchard
36 languages and cultures

12. Expect rough beginnings
“Microsoft..please, please take community advice!
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!!!! (Same thing told to Enterprise lib folks)
1. Over-engineered/complex like Oxite
2. Huge codebase
3. Slow
4. Not entity/domain driven
5. BlogEngine/MojoPortal are easier(not even MVC based)
6. Developer docs aren't good
7. Why step into .NET CMS market?
Let blogengine, mojo, kentico, umbraco have their share
by mattcarlo on Apr 13 2010 at 1:40 PM

13. Expect rough beginnings
“It's a toy,Don't work in share web hosting,don't download,it waste your time!!
by appletri on May 26 2010 at 4:18 AM

14. Expect rough beginnings
“Hum... First, I am not impressed by the project so far, second,
Microsft should use the time to help other
ASP.NET open source projects instead of making it own.
I agree that this can be a killing project for many ASP.NET open source
development companies in the future.
Microsoft please help your community, let them earn their living.
by Christdehaar on May 27 2010 at 9:28 PM

15. It gets better
“Very solid release. Faster, better.
“Clearly the leading NET CMS
“I like it's simplicity, keep up the good work, Will try to contribute :)
“The most extensible of any .net-based CMS solutions
“Best CMS, thank for sharing!
“It has been working flawlessly

16. How did we get here?

17. Microsoft
A blessing and a curse

18. Coming of age
Build an enthusiastic core

19. Coming of age
Empower them

20. Coming of age
Don't
do
everything
yourself
(you
can't)

21. Coming of age
Provide the foundations

22. Coming of age
Let
them
run
with
it

23. Coming of age
Never let management micro-manage you
or dictate design decisions

24. What does this mean concretely?
Cutting the umbilical cord:
Governance.
Yearly elected steering committee

25. What does this mean concretely?
Glasnost

26. What does this mean concretely?
Take
the
pulse
of
your
community

27. What does this mean concretely?
Be available on social media, IRC

28. What does this mean concretely?
Gallery.OrchardProject.net

29. What does this mean concretely?
Documentation:
Github + Markdown + Lucene
owned by Adrian Noble

30. What does this mean concretely?
Localization:
PO, online translation tool
owned by Benedek Farkas

31. What does this mean concretely?
ShowOrchard.com

32. What does this mean concretely?
OrchardPrime.com

33. What does this mean concretely?
OrchardMarket.com

34. What does this mean concretely?
Weekly public podcast
Demos
Triage
Recorded and published on YouTube

35. What does this mean concretely?
Organize a conference

36. Do you need adoption?
Build
it
for
yourself

37. Do you need adoption?
Don't try to satisfy everyone
(you can't)

38. Do you need adoption?
No user is better than dissatisfied users

39. How to deal with jerks?
Ignore them?

40. How to deal with jerks?
Mock them?

41. How to deal with jerks?
Kill
them
with
kindness

42. How to deal with jerks?
Show them the way out

43. How to deal with jerks?
You don't have to satisfy everyone

44. The most important thing
You are building a community before a product

45. The other most important thing
THANK YOU!
Sébastien Ros
Sipke Shoorstra
Ylan Kunstler
Piotr Szmyd
Nick Mayne
l Brett Morrison
l Zoltan Lehóczky
l Benedek Farkas
l Adrian Noble
l David Hayden
l ...and many more