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Making a splash with your open source project

Making a splash with your open source project

So you've written a bunch of code, and you think others might find it useful. You open source it, and... profit, right? Well, no. PyPI is filled with thousands of projects that have been released with the best of intentions, but never really break into the mainstream. How do you escape this trap, and maximize the chance that your project will actually be used, grow and thrive?

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrXXYBr1rlA

Russell Keith-Magee

July 19, 2016
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