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Kenyatta-forbes opened this issue May 8, 2025 · 4 comments
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💡 Got an idea for content for the Open Source Guides? #3428

Kenyatta-forbes opened this issue May 8, 2025 · 4 comments
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Kenyatta-forbes commented May 8, 2025

The Open Source Guide helps people learn how to build, grow, and contribute to open source projects. We're looking for fresh ideas to keep the guides useful, inclusive, and up to date—and we’d love your input!

👀 What content would you like to see?

  • Are there topics you wish were covered?
  • What would have been helpful when you were getting started?
  • What’s missing for maintainers, contributors, or project communities?

💬 What content would be most useful to you?

We’re especially looking for:

  • New guide ideas
  • Updates or improvements to current guides
  • Real-world examples, stories, or tips
  • Tools, processes, or best practices worth sharing

🛠 How to contribute:

Leave a comment with:

  1. Drop your idea in the comments with a quick explanation of why it's valuable
  2. If you're interested in writing or co-writing a draft, let us know—we’re happy to collaborate

You don’t need to write the content yourself—just spark the idea. We’ll take it from there or collaborate with you to bring it to life.

Let’s make open source better together. 💚

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@jackiekazil
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I haven't read through all the guides -- they are very helpful

  • Different formats for the guide -- there is so much content to read, I would like to read it in PDF form or on a kindle. (Dare I say - audio? I learn better that way.
  • Governance models
    • models of governance & examples
    • what hierarchy and when in the lifecycle
    • what is too much structure too early and what is not enough
  • CoC suggested procedures - and how to do the hard stuff
    • Example of how to make difficult decisions and use enforcement
  • How to offboard someone from your project (eg revoking accesses)
  • How / when to archive a project

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@ntindle
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ntindle commented May 13, 2025

  • Handling growth of a project and what you should do at each stage

Happy to help on it if interested.

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feross commented May 18, 2025

One idea: A guide on securing your project’s dependencies. Many open source maintainers rely on npm packages or other ecosystems, but don’t have good visibility into supply chain risks. A guide could cover things like detecting malicious packages, vetting new dependencies, using tools like Socket, and reducing attack surface. Would be super helpful for both new and experienced maintainers. Happy to help outline this if useful.

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