Communicate
Problem: Information isn’t flowing from one part of the community to the others.
Now that you’ve developed relationships in the community, it’s time to shift your focus to communication. Information is abundant in an open source project. The difficulty is that it’s often unorganized and hard to find. This is where you can make a big difference and provide a huge benefit to the whole community.
Lurk Everywhere
Problem: You’re not sure what’s going on in the community.
To communicate information, you first have to know it. People will sometimes come and tell you what’s going on in their part of the community. But mostly, you’ll need to find things out for yourself.
How? Actively paying attention to all parts of the community is a full-time ...
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