Caring for your baby ecosystem (Waza 2013)

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1. Caring for your baby ecosystem Jacob Kaplan-Moss jacob@jacobian.org
16. “Why did Django succeed?”
17. $  pip  search  django  |  wc  -­‐l 3763
18. “Django isn't a functional unit. You include it and it just sits there.” — Chris McDonough
19. Metcalfe’s law: The utility of a network increases by the square of its participants.
21. 1. Create APIs designed for extension.
22. 1. Create APIs designed for extension. 2. Conservatism can be a virtue.
23. 1. Create APIs designed for extension. 2. Conservatism can be a virtue. 3. Involve and empower your community.
24. 1. Create APIs designed for extension. 2. Conservatism can be a virtue. 3. Involve and empower your community.
25. “As a general rule you'll always be better off building something external. The path to… built-in requires overwhelming evidence that this is useful to a vast majority of Django users.” — Me
26. “I'm not sure there's a place for this in core… [but] it should be possible to use this library as a third party extension… [If there is refactoring that] would make this possible, I'm definitely open to making those changes.” — Russ Keith-Magee
27. ˑ Prefer adding extensibility over scratching itches.
28. ˑ “Pave the cow paths.”
29. 1. Create APIs designed for extension. 2. Conservatism can be a virtue. 3. Involve and empower your community.
30. “A rule of thumb that has worked well for me is that if I’m excited to play around with something it probably doesn’t belong in production.” — Maciej Ceglowski (Pinboard)
31. 1. Create APIs designed for extension. 2. Conservatism can be a virtue. 3. Involve and empower your community.
32. Consider your “conversion funnel.”
33. Potential User User Community member Community contributor Core member Leader
34. Documentation (http://jacobian.org/writing/great-documentation/)
36. Outreach
37. Transparency
38. Documentation Outreach Transparancy
39. 1. Create APIs designed for extension. 2. Conservatism can be a virtue. 3. Involve and empower your community.
40. ˑ Build ecosystems, not projects
41. ˑ Build ecosystems, not apps
42. ˑ Build ecosystems, not products
43. Thank you! jacob@jacobian.org speakerdeck.com/jacobian