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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
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