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DESCRIPTION:Today\, anyone with a small idea can start their own open-sourc
 e project. The rise of AI-assisted development and the growing population 
 of engineers have made it easier than ever. Yet GitHub now holds a near-en
 dless number of repositories\, and the real challenge begins after the fir
 st commit:  \n**how do you keep your project from being buried\, attract u
 sers\, grow a contributor base\, and keep improving?**\nFor young engineer
 s especially\, this is a daily worry. Running a project demands far more t
 han writing code — visibility\, documentation\, issue and PR handling\, 
 contributor onboarding\, and sustaining your own motivation. These problem
 s are rarely solved by technical skill alone\, and the hard-won knowledge 
 of those who came before is seldom shared openly.\nThis Birds-of-a-Feather
  session brings together engineers who already maintain an OSS project\, t
 hose who hope to start one\, and those who want to contribute. Rather than
  a one-way talk\, it is a place to bring our struggles and tactics and dis
 cuss them together. As a starting point\, the facilitator will draw on per
 sonal experience leading a project under OpenSolaris and helping several o
 ther OSS communities\, where many of these problems were faced firsthand. 
 From there\, we will dig into the difficulty of maintaining\, expanding\, 
 and improving a project\, and the particular challenge of attracting contr
 ibutors across borders. To seed the discussion\, we will explore questions
  such as how you won your first users and attention among countless projec
 ts\, what works for growing contributors and making onboarding smooth\, ho
 w you deal with critical or demanding participants and turn them into cont
 ributors\, how you find collaborators globally across language\, time-zone
 \, and cultural barriers\, and how you avoid burnout and keep a project al
 ive over the long term. Young engineers are the primary audience\, but exp
 erienced maintainers are warmly welcomed — their stories are exactly wha
 t makes this session valuable. No prior knowledge is required.\nAttendees 
 will hear candid\, real-world stories of how project owners hit walls and 
 worked through them. You will see that your own struggles are not unique\,
  gain concrete tactics you can try the next day\, and leave with connectio
 ns to peers who understand the work of running a project. The facilitator 
 joins as a participant too\, eager to learn from everyone's experiences. W
 hether you maintain a thriving project\, a quiet one\, or only a plan in y
 our head\, you will come away with a clearer sense of how to handle the no
 n-code side of open source — and you will not feel alone in it.
DTSTAMP:20260713T142502Z
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SUMMARY:[BoF] How Do You Grow Your Own OSS Project? — Sustaining\, Scalin
 g\, and Building Contributors 如何養大你自己的開源專案？ — 
 一場關於維持、擴展與培養貢獻者 - Masafumi Ohta
URL:https://pretalx.coscup.org/coscup-2026/talk/NGSU8G/
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