Sean Cribbs led a very wide ranging talk on how to manage and contribue to an open source project at last weeks Raleigh Ruby Camp.

Some things really stuck out to me:

1. The move to Github quieted the number of people who thought they were heavy handed as they could just fork whenever they wanted.

2. Plugins as a way to involve people in the project without changing the core.

3. Day job is supporting hacking

4. Building a service business around an open source application seems like a natural type of business.

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