Questions tagged [community]
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Are the stone-dead PHP mailing lists really how PHP developers and the PHP community communicate? [closed]
I've been looking at this for a long time: https://news-web.php.net/ Almost every single mailing list has the last messages sent to them in the year 2000-2003. That's 17-20 years ago! It would be an ...
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6 votes
1 answer
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Where and how should one announce their new open source application [closed]
Where and how should someone announce an open source application they would like the wider public to try? Obviously they can post their code somewhere like Github. There used to be Freshmeat, which ...
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5 votes
3 answers
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Why do programming languages encompass so much? [closed]
Programming languages are not just language. Each one tends to have: Its own IDEs, Its own package managers, Its own set of libraries, Its own build tools, Its own data formats. If you are writing ...
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4 votes
1 answer
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How can a commercially-driven open source project build an open source community?
I'm working on an ambitious, commercially-driven open source project* (it probably falls under Wikipedia's definition of Open Core). I'm an engineer on the project, so I don't have too much sway over ...
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3 votes
1 answer
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Governance models for multi-institution open source projects
I'm working on an open source project that has full time professional developers from several universities, plus a couple of other organisations. The product has something like a dozen deployments, ...
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3 votes
4 answers
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Planning to write research paper - Tips or resources? [closed]
I am a junior in high school and I've developed an optimization system for functional languages that could be very powerful. My computer science professors at Boise State University believe I should ...
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1 vote
3 answers
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Framework / platform for a .NET user group
I am preparing the creation of a dot net user group. One of the step is to have a website to : Exchange and discuss between members, using a forum (or just a mailing list?). Share a common calendar ...
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2 votes
2 answers
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Where can I get beta testers for a software library?
There are a few similar questions to this one already. But mine differs enough to warrant being asked separately. I've written an authentication ASP.Net library and I'm looking for beta testers. I've ...
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