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Posted to dev@community.apache.org by Nick Burch <ni...@apache.org> on 2014/08/05 15:49:03 UTC

Article on "Barriers faced by newcomers to open source"

Hi All

For those thinking about how to make it easier to new comers into your 
projects, and get them to stay, you may find this review article 
(especially section 3) of interest:
http://www.igor.pro.br/publica/papers/OSS2014.pdf

Nick

Re: Article on "Barriers faced by newcomers to open source"

Posted by Maurizio Taverna <ta...@gmail.com>.

Awesome paper.
I think the issue with 'new comers'  could be applied to any (software)
project.

Thanks for sharing.







2014-08-06 2:05 GMT+02:00 Kay Schenk <ka...@gmail.com>:

> Thanks. Very instructive.
>
> On 08/05/2014 06:49 AM, Nick Burch wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> > For those thinking about how to make it easier to new comers into your
> > projects, and get them to stay, you may find this review article
> > (especially section 3) of interest:
> > http://www.igor.pro.br/publica/papers/OSS2014.pdf
> >
> > Nick
>
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> MzK
>
> "For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing."
>                                    -- Simon Wiesenthal
>

Re: Article on "Barriers faced by newcomers to open source"

Posted by Kay Schenk <ka...@gmail.com>.

Thanks. Very instructive.

On 08/05/2014 06:49 AM, Nick Burch wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> For those thinking about how to make it easier to new comers into your
> projects, and get them to stay, you may find this review article
> (especially section 3) of interest:
> http://www.igor.pro.br/publica/papers/OSS2014.pdf
> 
> Nick

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"For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing."
                                   -- Simon Wiesenthal