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How to Market Micro Open Source Projects

Elle Kasai
February 19, 2015

How to Market Micro Open Source Projects

Elle Kasai

February 19, 2015
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  1. About me • UI designer/developer • Tokyo ✈ Vancouver (3

    months ago) • Ladies Learning Code mentor • Working on open source projects
  2. But the code is very simple • 80 lines •

    Only basic jQuery code • Any beginning developer can write it!
  3. What’s the secret to building a great open source marketing

    page? Answer the visitor’s questions
  4. Secret to building a great open source marketing page: Answer

    your visitor’s questions What’s Purplecoat.js? How do I use it? Easy to use? When would I use this? What if I want to customize it?
  5. “If it's worthwhile to you, it's probably worthwhile to someone

    else. They won't use it unless they learn about it.” ― Zach Holman, Engineer, GitHub IUUQ[BDIIPMNBODPNQPTUTPQFOTPVSDFNBSLFUJOH