jokosher's solar system

website

have a website

website

make it look good

website

most of your visitors are new

forums

build a community

forums

let them talk to one another

documentation

open source projects are crap at it

documentation

don't be crap at it

user contributed documentation

let everyone be part of the project

user contributed documentation

do less work and drink some beer instead

publicity

bug tracking

if you're not tracking bugs...

bug tracking

then you're forgetting them

bug tracking

make it easy to file

irc

get the hackers together

irc

hello? hello? is there anyone there?

developer wiki

somewhere to keep track of everything

source control

just do it