Do you maintain a project you didn't start? Presented at GoGaRuCo 2014 in San Francisco.

1. loving
managing resurrecting
inheriting
rebooting
caring
Taking Over
Someone Else’s Open Source Projects
Daniel Doubrovkine
@dblockdotorg

2. All characters appearing in this
work are fictitious. Any
resemblance to real persons,
living, dead or imprisoned, is
purely coincidental.

5. "When you lose interest in a program, your
last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent
successor.”!
!
- “The Cathedral and the Bazaar”, Eric S. Raymond

7. I (we) need it.

8. No

9. Nobody wants to be in charge.

10. Step up.

11. Get in touch.

12. People are human.

13. Fork it.

14. Own it.

15. .com !
.io

18. Real work begins.

19. Organize it.

31. Recruit the hopeless.

32. Make a release.

33. Pickup everything.

34. Create workflow.

35. A reputation of caring.

36. Create owners.

37. Ignore chickens.

38. Always make progress.

41. “We have more source code
than we need.”

42. Thanks!
Community.
@dblockdotorg / dblock@dblock.org / artsy.net