Optimize for Community
Unless you are just throwing your project over the wall, you probably want to attract users and contributors to it, which is to say: you want to build a community. There are entire organizations[103][104] dedicated to helping people learn how to build communities, so I won’t cover it in detail here. However, if you’ve gotten this far into the book, you already know a lot of the elements that can help lead to a strong and effective community. Optimizing your new project for these elements can put you on the right path toward attracting users, contributors, and collaborators.
The elements necessary to optimize for community are also those that help to establish, build, and maintain the trust of other people. It’s important ...
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