People

Running an Open Source project means interacting and getting involved with other humans; people. Maintaining Open Source means managing humans, similar to playing in a soccer team or managing your neighborhood's art club. Humans are social and complicated creatures.

• Negative feedback

• Insulting attitude

• People use your code without telling

• Paid developers ask unpaid volunteers to do work

• Contributors will not stick around

• Newcomers can be awesome

• The know-it-best people

• People hide their origins

• People assume everything is well motivated

• People will contact you privately about the project

• People will provide feedback on irrelevant places

• Contributors are mostly male white westerners

• Lower the bar to attract more contributions

• Code of Conduct