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Best Practices for Open Source Projects

von Ross Turk (SourceForge.net)

Freitag, 01.06.2007, Forum Messehalle, 12:00-13:00 Uhr

The SourceForge.net database contains nearly 150,000 unique open source projects with various goals and complexity, and user communities of all sizes. In this collection, there are clearly both successful projects and unsuccessful ones - but what makes a project succeed?

Ross Turk, SourceForge.net Community Manager, will use the SourceForge.net project database to demonstrate common behaviors and characteristics of successful open source projects. These characteristics will be analyzed to provide a list of practices that have been proven to draw interested users into a project's community, and win them over for good.

Topics will include:

• SourceForge.net Usage Statistics o Visitors and page views o Project metrics

• How do you know when a project has been successful?

• What makes those projects successful?

• What can new projects do to improve their chances of success?

Über den Autor Ross Turk:

Ross Turk has been with the OSTG family since 2000, and has served in multiple capacities during his tenure.

As the Engineering Manager for SourceForge.net, he spearheaded efforts to improve to the world's largest destination for open source, including the new Software Map and Search and major navigation and aesthetic overhauls.

In his current role as SourceForge.net Community Manager, Ross is responsible for communicating with the SourceForge.net community, understanding their needs, and contributing to the site's strategic plan.

During his twelve-year career, he has focused on assessing and optimizing the business and engineering processes of a wide variety of engineering organizations, always with a passion for Open Source methodologies.