DeHaan: Recognizing and Avoiding Common Open Source Community Pitfalls

[Posted May 18, 2009 by jake]

Michael DeHaan looks at open source development misconceptions in a posting to his blog. In it, he looks at around a dozen different "stumbling blocks" that projects might run up against. "What typically isn't written though are about some of the misconceptions — A lot of folks contributors appear overnight out of the woodwork, that users grow on trees, and that it's possible to direct community members as if they were employees — not so, of course, and folks get disappointed or discouraged when it doesn't happen."

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