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Pa#erns for Open Source Success Stephen R. Walli The Outercurve Founda7on May 9, 2013

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Orders of magnitude

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ROTOR 500K LoC 500K Lines-­‐of-­‐Test Harness Ran on Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD One script to set environment One command to build everything One command to test it all Minimal documenta7on 24 hours later … 24 hours later again …

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CommiQer(s) + Code

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Developers CommiQers + Code

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Developers CommiQers + Code

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Developers Users CommiQers + Code

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Developers Users CommiQers + Code

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How do you increase your user base? (How do you make it easy to install/configure/use the soZware?) How do you encourage developers? (How do you make it easy to build/test/experiment?) How do you make it easy to contribute? (What do you communicate to your community)

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How do you increase your user base? (How do you make it easy to install/configure/use the soZware?)

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How do you increase your user base? (How do you make it easy to install/configure/use the soZware?) Project Exes published Project Install Automated SoZware Construc7on Ac7vi7es Project BugTracking

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How do you increase your user base? (How do you make it easy to install/configure/use the soZware?) Project Exes published Project Install Automated SoZware Construc7on Ac7vi7es Project License FAQs, Howto Community Development Ac7vi7es Project BugTracking Forums, Email

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How do you encourage developers? (How do you make it easy to build/test/experiment?)

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How do you encourage developers? (How do you make it easy to build/test/experiment?) Project Build Automated I Complete Src published Project Test Automated I SoZware Construc7on Ac7vi7es

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How do you encourage developers? (How do you make it easy to build/test/experiment?) Project Build Automated I Complete Src published Project Test Automated I SoZware Construc7on Ac7vi7es Mission Statement Comms Plaborm ContributoionGuidelines Community Development Ac7vi7es Code of Conduct

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How do you make it easy to contribute? (What do you communicate to your community)

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How do you make it easy to contribute? (What do you communicate to your community) Project Build Automated II Project Test Automated II Basic Arch Descrip7on SoZware Construc7on Ac7vi7es

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How do you make it easy to contribute? (What do you communicate to your community) Project Build Automated II Project Test Automated II Basic Arch Descrip7on SoZware Construc7on Ac7vi7es Governance Events Community Development Ac7vi7es

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How do you make it easy to contribute? (What do you communicate to your COMMERCIAL community) Project License Provenance Tracking Repositories Protected Dependencies Documented Contribu7ons AudiQed Provenance Management CommiQers Indemnified CommiQer Governance Trademark Management IP Management Ac7vi7es

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Open Source Community Pa#erns Project Exes published Project Build Automated I Project Install Automated Complete Src published Project BugTracking Project Build Automated II Project Test Automated I Project Test Automated II Basic Arch Descrip7on Project License Project License Mission Statement Code of Conduct Forums, Email Comms Plaborm FAQs, Howto Governance ContributoionGuidelines Events Provenance Tracking Repositories Protected Dependencies Documented Contribu7ons AudiQed Provenance Management CommiQers Indemnified CommiQer Governance Trademark Management IP Management Ac7vi7es Community Development SoZware Construc7on Maturity

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Developers Users CommiQers + Code

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Developers Users CommiQers + Code Books Contractors Products Distribu2ons Consul2ng Training Support Building the Ecosystem

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Plan Forward • This is a Work-­‐in-­‐Progress • Github • Atlas (asciiDoc and Markdown) • Run as an open source project • Crea7ve Commons Licensed • Designed/developed to be as inclusive as possible

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Ques@ons & Comments Stephen R Walli swalli@outercurve.org @stephenrwalli