This blog post deals with the problem of finding the right point in time to go public with your project. When should you write the first announcements, when and how to ask for help… When should you go public with your idea for a project? The sooner you go public, the sooner you’ll get people involved to help you. At least this is what you might think.

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This article deals with the problem of choosing a suitable license for your project. I will talk a little bit about general topics that you should think about and after that I’ll introduce a few different license types. This won’t be a comprehensive decision guide, this field is too complex for that, but maybe the advices help you in deciding what kind of license you like.

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introduction · license · starting-phase · talk

This article will deal with the problem of finding the right name for your project. There are quite a few pitfalls that you have to take care of. For example free domains, names that can be translated in foreign languages to bad words etc.

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introduction · naming · starting-phase · talk

This article covers a few additional things that you should think of before starting a project, like whether to join a project instead of starting it. The goal is to give some hints, so you don’t start a project and after you have spent a lot of your time, you’ll find a project that fits your needs and you have wasted a lot of your precious spare time.

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introduction · starting-phase · talk

This article describes a few things you should consider before you start a project, like when to go public, which group of people you are targeting etc. The goal is to give some insights. It’s not getting very deep, because there will be dedicated articles for some chapters later, that are more detailed.

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introduction · starting-phase · talk