10 ways to destroy your community

By Shiny

"10 Ways to Destroy your Community" - Josh Berkus - at #lca2010

1. Insist on difficult tools
2. Maximise the impact of poisonous community members
3. Prevent documentation
4. Make attending meetings impossible
5. Use lots of legal agreements NDA licensing etc
6. Bad liaison person
7. Obfuscated governance arrangements (complex diagram)
8. Screw around with licences
9. Allow no outside code committers
10. Ignore the community - be silent

(very very much based on tweets by @colinjacksonnz)

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By Anonymous (not verified)
7 weeks 3 days ago

What particular projects were

What particular projects were used as examples?

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