Landon Blake ha scritto:
Andrea,
You wrote: "This tells me the project has lots of contributors, lots of
people that have a stake on it, a big enough user base that the
possibility of funding is no more a pipe dream but a solid reality.
Such a project by its very nature will tend to attract more people that
can find funding to work on the project itself."
I'm curious about how we get a project to the point you describe. That
seems to be an even greater challenge.
If there was a recipe we would not see that many failed open source
projects ;-)
However someone wrote a book to help:
http://producingoss.com/
Mind, the book will save people from obvious mistakes, and our course
you need technical talent too, but past that, imho the personalities of
the people involved (treating a project as a pile of code instead as a
group of people is another common mistake imho), dedication, good timing
and even just luck are really playing the difference between success and
failure.
Cheers
Andrea
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Andrea Aime
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