How to manage a project - PHASES OF THE PROJECT

After making the first critical choices for the success of your Open Source project you have to define a plan of activities, goal and results that you want to achieve.
The main steps to manage an open source project are the definition of:
- Project Roadmap
- Source code packages to release
- Project documentation with related license
- Community management and support tools

The Art of the Start

I am started to read the book "The Art of The Start" of Guy Kawasaki.
I think that the following chapters will be very usefull to improve my job:
- chapter 3 "The Art of Pitching"
- chapter 8 "The Art of Partnering"
- chapter 9 "The Art of Branding"
- chapter 10 "The Art of Rainmaking"