Forge Your Future with Open Source

What Is Your Goal?

You want to release your project as free and open source…but why? It seems like it’s a silly question with an obvious answer, but is it, really? When you pause to consider it, you may find that it’s not quite as easy to answer as you first expected, but that answer can be very useful when considering the steps that follow. Your goal may be to share the project, but otherwise to minimize your involvement with it (what we call the “throw it over the wall” method). This is common with very small projects like utility libraries that your company doesn’t use often anymore but others may find useful later on. Perhaps you’re looking for help with development, so you need to build a community of users and contributors. Projects that ...