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Recruitment Options For a Small-Scale FOSS Project?
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, (no URL, sorry, I can't afford 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. 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 do you have any suggestions as to how, and where, to find people who fancy joining open source projects?"
That'll get 'em for sure! ;)
"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune
Well I've got a project I'm working right now that I'd love everyone to know the details of. It's really super.
It will be the most secure and robust thing you've ever seen. In fact it will be the BEST thing you've ever seen.
We've got it in the works right now. I've seen the early betas, and it's AWESOME.
It's sort of open-source but not really if you read the fine print. But who reads that?
This will do everything you've always wanted it to do and more. It will literally blow you away.
When we release this thing, everyone will be crapping their trousers about how cool it is and how we managed to sit on it for so long. You really will be so amazed that you will soil yourselves.
Hell YEAH! It's that awesome. Just don't ask us too many detailed questions about what it is or what it does.
Just stick around and wait for the press releases. They'll tell you how incredibly cool our new product is.
Thanks,
Steve BallmerLink to a man's project on Slashdot, that project gets some developers for a day. Answer the generic question on Slashdot, now every project can have developers. - Chinese Proverb.