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+- Recruitment options for small scal FOSS projects on Sunday May 11 2008, @03:03PM thermian
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thermian writes "I've been developing my open source project for several years now, and I've never found a solution to one fairly important issue.
How can a small scale project attract new members?
My project is pretty specialist, (sorry no url, I don't want to get my server nuked) and I find that while it gets a fair bit of use, most users come to my software out of a need to solve their problem, or use my tutorials to learn about the subject, and none seem inclined to stick around and help make the product better. This is a fairly serious problem for me now, because my software has recently been adopted by a university, and I'm just not in a position to manage the entire set of applications and update everything on my own. Not soon anyway. Just preparing a version for release to students has been especially hard, the open source maxim 'many eyes make all bugs shallow' only works if those 'many eyes' are available.
So does the slashdot community have any suggestions as to how, and where, to find people who fancy joining open source projects?"
How can a small scale project attract new members?
My project is pretty specialist, (sorry no url, I don't want to get my server nuked) and I find that while it gets a fair bit of use, most users come to my software out of a need to solve their problem, or use my tutorials to learn about the subject, and none seem inclined to stick around and help make the product better. This is a fairly serious problem for me now, because my software has recently been adopted by a university, and I'm just not in a position to manage the entire set of applications and update everything on my own. Not soon anyway. Just preparing a version for release to students has been especially hard, the open source maxim 'many eyes make all bugs shallow' only works if those 'many eyes' are available.
So does the slashdot community have any suggestions as to how, and where, to find people who fancy joining open source projects?"
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