Open Source has become an increasingly important methodology for developing software, it can deliver business, technical and social advantages to what is an incredibly difficult discipline. However, many developers and organisations fall into the trap of assuming that just releasing the source code makes for a successful Open Source Project. Sadly, a vast majority of Open Source projects do fail due to this simplistic view of what is required.

This talk will hopefully help others avoid that pitfall by covering the various aspects of how to run a successful Open Source project, including:

• Getting started (Choosing your project name, Mission Statement, etc)
• Setting up your technical, social and political infrastructure
• Money
• Communications
• Packaging, Releasing and Daily Development
• Managing your volunteers
• Licensing, Patents and Copyright

Martijn also hopes at the end of the talk to have a beer in the pub with you all afterwards!

	Fighting for Simplicity with Spring Russ Miles : 21st May 2013
	Spring Security Javaconfig: New Kid on t David Syer : 21st May 2013
	Streaming analytics at scale : 16th May 2013
	High Performance Design Nick Zeeb : 14th May 2013
	Measures Of Application Performance Mikhail Kirvoshein : 14th May 2013
	Writing Hybrid GWT/JavaScript Applicatio Dmitry Buzdin : 13th May 2013
	Machine Learning with Storm + Redis Yodit Stanton : 7th May 2013
	Considerations for using NoSQL technolog Akmal Chaudhri : 7th May 2013
	Cascalog for the 80% of Data Science Bruce Durling : 7th May 2013
	Lightning Talks Various Speakers : 7th May 2013
	Intro to Kotlin Workshop Hadi Hariri : 2nd May 2013
	Do you really get class loaders? Simon Maple : 25th Apr 2013
	Feature Releasing Robert Rees : 25th Apr 2013
	Architectural Simplicity through Events Russ Miles : 24th Apr 2013
	CASE STUDY: how OpenCorporates uses Neo4 : 24th Apr 2013