Re:Ask HN: How to get contributions to open source project
by brudgers on Friday September 23, 2016 @01:57PM
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People will more readily contribute to a community than a technology. For some definition of 'successful', successful opensource projects are often successful due to community at least as much as technology.
Often those communities are built around the business needs of the community members, e.g. Apache Foundation projects. Occasionally, the communities are built around shared political beliefs, e.g. GNU projects...it's worth considering how much work Stallman has put into community over the past 35 years or so. Probably worth looking at Linux too in regard to how much the principle contributor's social eccentricities affect open source success.
Often those communities are built around the business needs of the community members, e.g. Apache Foundation projects. Occasionally, the communities are built around shared political beliefs, e.g. GNU projects...it's worth considering how much work Stallman has put into community over the past 35 years or so. Probably worth looking at Linux too in regard to how much the principle contributor's social eccentricities affect open source success.
To put it another way:
Good luck.