People

Running an Open Source project means interacting and getting involved with other humans; people. Maintaining Open Source means managing humans, similar to playing in a soccer team or managing your neighborhood's art club. Humans are social and complicated creatures.

• Negative feedback
• Insulting attitude
• People use your code without telling
• Paid developers ask unpaid volunteers to do work
• Contributors will not stick around
• Newcomers can be awesome
• The know-it-best people
• People hide their origins
• People assume everything is well motivated
• People will contact you privately about the project
• People will provide feedback on irrelevant places
• Contributors are mostly male white westerners
• Lower the bar to attract more contributions
• Code of Conduct
• Communication