This has already been posted on HN more than one and half years ago [1] and the first edition get back to 2005. It contains updates up to early 2016 as mentione

This has already been posted on HN more than one and half years ago [1] and the first edition get back to 2005. It contains updates up to early 2016 as mentioned in a few paragraphs. This book is a classical and a must go for anyone wanting to start building a strong open-source community. It covers a wide range of topics: - Getting Started (Name, Mission, Documentation, Hosting, Code of Conduct, …) - Technical Infrastructure (Web site, Mailing list, Version Control, Bug tracker, IRC, Wiki, …) - Social and Political Infrastructure (Benevolent dictator, Consensus-based Democracy, …) - Participating as a Business (Contracting, Funding, Marketing, Organization, …) - Communications (Common pitfalls, Difficult people, Handling growth, …) - Packaging, Releasing (Versioning, Branching, Releasing, Testing, …) - Managing Participants (Community, Transitions, Committers, Credits, …) - Legal Matters (Licenses, Contributors, Trademarks, Patents, …) (This list is a subset of the Table of Contents) It covers nearly every topic that an open-source community can be concerned about, and each section contains valuable thoughts for communities starting to wonder about a given problematic. I read the first edition eight years ago, and I'm planning to give it another go because I realized that I've forgotten a lot of what I read. Another good excuse to read it again is that the world and tooling has also evolved quite a lot in 8 years (Github was launched 8 years ago!). Happy reading! [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9323653 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9323653