How to find employees for open source projects?

Question

I have several small open source projects that I wrote. All my attempts to find co-authors (looked at sourceforge.net and codeplex) failed - I could not find anyone, or I found people who were either not interested or did not contribute anything. So the question is: how and where can I find people to work with (open source)?

Answer 1

Short answer: Be healthy.

If your software really addresses a sore point and solves it well, people will come to it on their own (subject to reasonable promotion on your part) through SourceForge / GitHub / etc., Google and by word of mouth. If you attract a critical mass of people who need what your software does and need it to have new features, collaborators will come.

Also: Stay active. If you haven't updated your code after 6 months, or if your SourceForge page says your software has been in Alpha for a year, many people will ignore it and move on to the next search result. Get the software where it is ready for others, and support it.

The thing about Open Source is that it really has to grow organically - no one gets paid, none of them can be fired - people have to take care of your software so that it exceeds what you can do. You will never attract collaborators (or, in any case, good ones), asking for them - only by creating what a good programmer will find interesting to work with.

Answer 2

I think there is only a way to do this:

• Create something that people use a lot, and the potential user account should also be great.
• Save it and save the database

After a while, people should start hacking your tool and then join the development. But before the tool gets decent popularity, I think it's pretty hard to expect people to join the project.

Answer 3

There is a site for searching for co-authors: http://collabfinder.com/

Answer 4

Ask yourself if the “recruitment of people who will win this project” is bigger than yourself. Find people in this set that can also encode. For example, I am writing a project for pilots. So I asked the pilots for help - some of them are encoders.

Answer 5

As a contributor, I am looking for:

• Mature project with active development
• Something that interests me
• Lots of features to add features that seem pleasant to me.
• A supportive community of users and developers, even if it
• Several iterations of releases to prove that they do not know how

Make sure that your project is not like a lemon serving users and creating this database, and you can, and I think they will be spring from a tree.

The main path for the participants is users, after which make sure that you are friendly to the developers, and you should find a useful group of people who will help you.

Answer 6

http://www.builditwith.me is also an option if you are looking for designers and / or developers