Managing a project well when all the participants are volunteers presents
some unique challenges. This is too large a topic to cover in a HOWTO.
Fortunately, there are some useful white papers available that will help you
understand the major issues.
For discussion of basic development organization and the
release-early-release-often `bazaar mode', see The Cathedral and
the Bazaar.
For discussion of motivational psychology, community customs,
and conflict resolution, see Homesteading
the Noosphere.
For discussion of economics and appropriate business models, see
The Magic Cauldron.
These papers are not the last word on open-source development. But they
were the first serious analyses to be written, and have yet to be
superseded (though the author hopes they will be someday).
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