Open Advice

Open Advice

FOSS: What We Wish We Had Known When We Started

More info about the book here (source text available under the CC-BY-SA license)
editor: Lydia Pintscher

section	title	author
	Info
	Foreword	Georg C. F. Greve
	Thank You!
Ideas and Innovation	Code First	Armijn Hemel
	Everyone Else Might Be Wrong, But Probably Not	Evan Prodromou
Research	Out of the Lab, into the Wild: Growing Open Source Communities around Academic Projects	Markus Krötzsch
	Prepare for the Future: Evolution of Teams in FLOSS	Felipe Ortega
Mentoring and Recruiting	You’ll Eventually Know Everything They’ve Forgotten	Leslie Hawthorn
	University and Community	Kévin Ottens
	Being Allowed to Do Awesome	Lydia Pintscher
Infrastructure	Love the Unknown	Jeff Mitchell
	Backups to Maintain Sanity	Austin Appel
Code	The Art of Problem Solving	Thiago Macieira
	Cross-Project Collaboration	Henri Bergius
	Writing Patches	Kai Blin
Quality Assurance	Given Enough Eyeballs, Not All Bugs are Shallow	Ara Pulido
	Kick, Push	Andre Klapper
	Test-Driven Enlightenment	Jonathan ”Duke” Leto
Documentation and Support	Life-Changer Documentation for Novices	Atul Jha
	Good Manners Matter	Rich Bowen
	Documentation and My Former Self	Anne Gentle
	Stop Worrying and Love the Crowd	Shaun McCance
Translation	My Project Taught Me how to Grow Up	Runa Bhattacharjee
Usability	Learn from Your Users	Guillaume Paumier
	Software that Has the Quality Without A Name	Federico Mena Quintero
Artwork and Design	Don’t Be Shy	Máirín Duffy Strode
	Use of Color and Images in Design Practices	Eugene Trounev
Community Management	How Not to Start a Community	Robert Kaye
	Hindsight is Almost 20/20	Jono Bacon
	Things I’m Happy I Didn’t Know	Alexandra Leisse
Packaging	From Beginner to Professional	Jonathan Riddell
	Packaging - Providing a Great Route into Free Software	Thom May
	Where Upstream and Downstream Meet	Vincent Untz
Promotion	Finding Your Feet in a Free Software Promotion Team	Stuart Jarvis
	Big Plans Don’t Work	Jos Poortvliet
	Who are You, What are You Selling, and Why Should I Care?	Sally Khudairi
Conferences and Sprints	People are Everything	Nóirín Plunkett
	Getting People Together	Dave Neary
	We’re Not Crazy... We’re Conference Organizers!	Gareth J. Greenaway
	How to Ask for Money	Selena Deckelmann
Business	Free Software in Public Administrations	Till Adam
	Underestimating the Value of a Free Software Business Model	Frank Karlitschek
	Free and Open Source-Based Business Models	Carlo Daffara
Legal and Policy	On being a Lawyer in FOSS	Till Jaeger
	Building Bridges	Shane Martin Coughlan
	And Now it is Your Turn!	Lydia Pintscher