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Lessons Learned from Cultivating Open Source Projects and Communities

This post was originally published on Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at cloudwithchris.com.

In this episode, Chris is joined by JJ Asghar as they talk through lessons learned from cultivating open source projects and communities. Over the last decade, JJ has had the privilege professionally of building and cultivating some Open Source projects and communities.This isn't a tools talk. This is a talk about the soft skills you have to have to be able to succeed as a leader in an Open Source project. JJ's journey started tending the frequently asked questions for a small Linux Distribution called CRUX, and then years later professionally moved to the OpenStack-Chef project to build OpenStack clouds. He has grown other projects along the way, helped build tooling and communities, some successful and still running today, others were just flashes in the pan. He's learned a ton on this journey; and still is, but has some lessons that are hard-learned and hopefully will warn against pitfalls that can cause wasted cycles and pain.

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