Difference between revisions of "Protect the community"

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This page collects resources from the open source world on maintaining and building healthy communities around your open source project.

Build a community, not just a mailing list.
Be very conscious of tone.
Followup with constructivly with criticisms on blogs (ie "Thanks for you criticism, how can we do this better?").
Be careful of trolls, and just ignore them. Possibly ban them.
Spam can't be an afterthought. Don't think oh, we won't get spammed. Google groups does a good job.
Listen to the community. Everyone has good and bad ideas.
Don't pay too much attention to vocal minority. But be willing to take big risks when the community asks for them.
Have to be willing to ask for help and delegating things.

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 * [http://www.red-bean.com/dav/presentations/PoisonousPeople.pdf Protecting projects from poisonous people]
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-* [http://www.oreillynet.com/conferences/blog/2006/07/oscon_how_open_source_projects.html More notes on this talk]
+** [http://www.oreillynet.com/conferences/blog/2006/07/oscon_how_open_source_projects.html More notes on this talk] from O'Reilly
 * [http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/11/11/mailing-list-community-care/ Mailing list community care]
 * [http://bikeshed.com/ Avoid bikesheds (related to Wadler's Law of Language Design)]