Twelve tips for growing communities around your open source project

1 · Ben Balter · Nov. 10, 2017, 5 a.m.
The superficial promise of open source is that if you publish your code, others will make it better. Strictly speaking, that’s not the case. To reap the benefits of open source, maintainers must seek to grow communities around their project, a step often overlooked when “publishing” code. When it comes to growing communities, there’s nothing unique about online communities. Online communities are offline communities, just online. Like your bowling league, place of worship, or neighborhood, there...