Abstract Building an active and helpful community around an open source project is a com-plex task for its leaders. Therefore investigations in this work are intended to define the optimum starting position of an open source project and to identify recommend-able promoting actions by project leaders to enlarge community size in a healthy way. For this paper eight interviews with committed representatives of successful open source projects have led to over 12 hours of conversation about community building. Analysing the statements of these experienced community members ex-posed helpful activities that led to the presently prospering communities of their pro-jects. Summarizing the conclusions of this qualitative research a table with condi- tions for successful open source project initialisation and a subject-level promotion matrix of community building could be created. They include suggestions on how to start a new open source project and how to improve and increase the community of an already advanced open source project. .... -- Πριν εκτυπώσετε αυτό το μήνυμα, σκεφθείτε το περιβάλλον! Ένα χαρτί λιγότερο! - http://karounos.gr/blog/
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