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Party Of One: Surviving A Hobby Open Source Project
Posted by kirillcool on May 19, 2008 at 09:36 AM | Comments (3)
Last week’s JavaOne had a separate track on open source, and there’s been a substantial number of very interesting panels, discussions and presentations. However, i felt that these talks concentrated mostly on big, well-established and very broad open-source communities. While it is perfectly understandable, the few dozens of these high-profile communities do not reflect the specific problems of a much vaster landscape of the open-source in general. Here I’m talking about literally hundreds of thousands of projects that only have a single active developer. I call it the "party of one" type of project, and these pose a number of quite significant challenges to their "owners", especially if it is done as a part time hobby. I had a number of such projects (where i am the only developer) over the last decade, and some of them are still quite active. I have written a blog series that talks about the specifics of one-man projects and how to maintain a long-term level of commitment.
If the terms such as steering committee, constitution, incubation and governance models do not apply to your project, take a look.
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Looking forward to reading these Kirill. The timing could not be better...
Posted by: wsnyder6 on May 19, 2008 at 10:32 AM
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Thanks for posting an index. In spite of you being in my aggregator, it seems that I had lost it.
Posted by: fabriziogiudici on May 19, 2008 at 10:36 AM
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you equally could have called it "The I in team project" ;)
Posted by: evanx on May 20, 2008 at 09:12 AM
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