Write a chapter on common community management mistakes

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Guidebook of open source community management best practices; is somewhat opinionated.

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Write a chapter on common community management mistakes #35

Open semioticrobotic opened 4 years ago

semioticrobotic commented 4 years ago

Compose a guidebook chapter surveying some common mistakes community managers tend to make (and explaining how to avoid them, if possible!). Topics may include:

Handling loss of contributors, off-boarding, and succession
How to decide when to end a project
Best practices for ending a project gracefully
Forking or taking over projects (esp. with regard to trademarks)

Silona commented 4 years ago

Interested but let me do the other chapter first. But we can talk outline?

quaid commented 3 years ago

Ray suggests, can we get a top-five from different community managers?

rpaik commented 3 years ago

Here are some of my suggestions for the top 5 list:

Placing too much emphasis on community metrics.
Too quick to rely on (new) tools to solve problems in the community.
Not placing enough emphasis on Diversity & Inclusion from Day 1.