Questions tagged [community]
Questions for the retention and building of community audiences, as well as the contributor and developer communities, that concern open projects.
51 questions
5 votes
1 answer
1k views
Strategy for promoting a non-US FOSS project in the US?
I want to try to pick this community's brain a bit. Suppose you're a USer, and a somewhat-active member in some large FOSS project, but that project is actually not that popular in the US: It has a ...
- 449
-5 votes
1 answer
248 views
Why are open source projects so broken and apathetic if they are run by idealists? [closed]
I've just wasted countless hours over weeks just trying to get LibreOffice to use a dark theme. I've made numerous searches, looked through the entire UI, manually gone hunting for "the usual ...
1 vote
1 answer
58 views
Open Source Package Name
I have found this useful package for cloud native applications. It's name and site is Kuma . The problem is that, the name(Kuma) is a very sensitive organ in my language. A womans private part, (...
- 113
0 votes
1 answer
124 views
How to create connections with contributions?
I am starting to work on open source projects and make contributions on some well known projects. I wanted to know how well this is for me professionally and how can you come about creating ...
- 103
0 votes
1 answer
241 views
Which open-source community software is this? [closed]
This is an example of the forum software: https://community.aseprite.org/ I have seen many communities with identical design, suggesting that they use the same self-hosted software. Is that an open-...
4 votes
1 answer
117 views
How can an open-source project share web site ownership?
How, with no company or non-profit organization to own an open source project, can I arrange for the project community to hold the ownership of the web site, vs. one person. Simple in theory, but ...
- 53
8 votes
1 answer
3k views
How to effectively browse mailing lists
There are many open source projects whose development is officially discussed through mailing lists (the obvious example being the Linux kernel). Being young and spoiled by nice clean website design,...
- 191
2 votes
0 answers
96 views
How to Move Smart City Columbus from Internal to Open Source? [closed]
Last year, Columbus,OH won the US DOT Smart Cities Challenge. Since then, they've made major progress on a number of fronts. The SmartColumbus Operating System provides the technical core, while ~1000 ...
- 129