Friday, March 12, 2010

How to manage an Open Source project - First choices

When decide to create an Open Source project at the benning it is necessary to make critical choices for the success of the project:

- Analysis of competitors: analyze the existing open source projects in the same domain to assess whether it is opportune to develop another similar system. If you decide that there are no systems that satisfy your need and you want to develop one you can procede with the following steps.
- Definition of Mission and Vision: it's important to define a clear vision and a set of goals to want to reach with the project. You have to communicate and share them with the community to establish a project identity and to give a direction to follow.
- Identification of the target users in order to prepare the appropriate tools for sharing information with the community
- Analysis and choice of the project name: this activity is one of the most important to the success of the project. You need to find an impact project name and easy to remember and
- Analysis and choice of Open Source license based on the characteristics of the project

After these first steps you can continue with other activities...

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