Caring for your baby ecosystem (Waza 2013)

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1. Caring for your baby ecosystem Jacob Kaplan-Moss [email protected]

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16. “Why did Django succeed?”

17. $  pip  search  django  |  wc  -­‐l 3763

18. “Django isn't a functional unit. You include it and it

    just sits there.” — Chris McDonough

19. Metcalfe’s law: The utility of a network increases by the

    square of its participants.
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21. 1. Create APIs designed for extension.

22. 1. Create APIs designed for extension. 2. Conservatism can be

    a virtue.

23. 1. Create APIs designed for extension. 2. Conservatism can be

    a virtue. 3. Involve and empower your community.

24. 1. Create APIs designed for extension. 2. Conservatism can be

    a virtue. 3. Involve and empower your community.

25. “As a general rule you'll always be better off building

    something external. The path to… built-in requires overwhelming evidence that this is useful to a vast majority of Django users.” — Me

26. “I'm not sure there's a place for this in core…

    [but] it should be possible to use this library as a third party extension… [If there is refactoring that] would make this possible, I'm definitely open to making those changes.” — Russ Keith-Magee

27. ˑ Prefer adding extensibility over scratching itches.

28. ˑ “Pave the cow paths.”

29. 1. Create APIs designed for extension. 2. Conservatism can be

    a virtue. 3. Involve and empower your community.

30. “A rule of thumb that has worked well for me

    is that if I’m excited to play around with something it probably doesn’t belong in production.” — Maciej Ceglowski (Pinboard)

31. 1. Create APIs designed for extension. 2. Conservatism can be

    a virtue. 3. Involve and empower your community.

32. Consider your “conversion funnel.”

33. Potential User User Community member Community contributor Core member Leader

34. Documentation (http://jacobian.org/writing/great-documentation/)

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36. Outreach

37. Transparency

38. Documentation Outreach Transparancy

39. 1. Create APIs designed for extension. 2. Conservatism can be

    a virtue. 3. Involve and empower your community.

40. ˑ Build ecosystems, not projects

41. ˑ Build ecosystems, not apps

42. ˑ Build ecosystems, not products

43. Thank you! [email protected] speakerdeck.com/jacobian