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PostHeaderIcon PROJMAN #2 Free Software Project Management

This HOWTO is designed for people with experience in programming and some skills in managing a software project but who are new to the world of free software. [http://yukidoke.org/~mako/projects/howto/] Benjamin “Mako” Hill . guide to the non-technical aspects of free software project management and was written to be a crash course in the people skills that aren’t taught to commercial coders but that can make or break a free software project. —————————————————————————– Table of Contents 1. Introduction 1.1. Copyright Information 1.2. Disclaimer 1.3. New Versions 1.4. Credits 1.5. Feedback 1.6. Translations 2. Starting a Project 2.1. Choosing a Project 2.2. Naming your project 2.3. Licensing your Software 2.4. Choosing a Method of Version Numbering 2.5. Documentation 2.6. Other Presentation Issues 3. Maintaining a Project: Interacting with Developers 3.1. Delegating Work 3.2. Accepting and

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PostHeaderIcon PROJMAN #77 Free Software Project Management

This HOWTO is designed for people with experience in programming and some skills in managing a software project but who are new to the world of free software. [http://yukidoke.org/~mako/projects/howto/] Benjamin “Mako” Hill . developers can upload into the main F.T.P server, and vote on major issues. Direction for the project is determined by the project’s social contract and a [http://www.debian.org/ devel/constitution] constitution. To facilitate this system, there are special teams (i.e. the install team, the Japanese language team) as well as a technical committee and a project leader. The leader’s main responsibility is to, “appoint delegates or delegate decisions to the Technical Committee.” While both of these projects operate on a scale that your project will not (at least initially), their example is helpful. Debian’s idea of a project leader who can do nothing

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