Building the Orchard Community
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A presentation by Bertrand LeRoy at the OuterConf2013 regarding the challenges and success in building the Orchard OSS CMS.
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Building the Orchard Community
- 1. Building the Orchard Community Bertrand Le Roy [nwazet
- 2. The current state of Orchard 480,000 downloads
- 3. The current state of Orchard 0.01% = ~37,000 sites
- 4. The current state of Orchard Big, important sites
- 5. The current state of Orchard 500 modules and themes downloaded 4,100,000 times
- 6. The current state of Orchard 7,000 commits made by 82 contributors
- 7. The current state of Orchard 2,500 bugs closed
- 8. The current state of Orchard 200,000 lines of code
- 9. The current state of Orchard 70,000 forum posts 1,200 Stack Overflow questions
- 10. The current state of Orchard Belgium, China, France, Italy, Hungary, The Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain, and Switzerland
- 11. The current state of Orchard 36 languages and cultures
- 12. Expect rough beginnings “Microsoft..please, please take community advice! Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!!!! (Same thing told to Enterprise lib folks) 1. Over-engineered/complex like Oxite 2. Huge codebase 3. Slow 4. Not entity/domain driven 5. BlogEngine/MojoPortal are easier(not even MVC based) 6. Developer docs aren't good 7. Why step into .NET CMS market? Let blogengine, mojo, kentico, umbraco have their share by mattcarlo on Apr 13 2010 at 1:40 PM
- 13. Expect rough beginnings “It's a toy,Don't work in share web hosting,don't download,it waste your time!! by appletri on May 26 2010 at 4:18 AM
- 14. Expect rough beginnings “Hum... First, I am not impressed by the project so far, second, Microsft should use the time to help other ASP.NET open source projects instead of making it own. I agree that this can be a killing project for many ASP.NET open source development companies in the future. Microsoft please help your community, let them earn their living. by Christdehaar on May 27 2010 at 9:28 PM
- 15. It gets better “Very solid release. Faster, better. “Clearly the leading NET CMS “I like it's simplicity, keep up the good work, Will try to contribute :) “The most extensible of any .net-based CMS solutions “Best CMS, thank for sharing! “It has been working flawlessly
- 16. How did we get here?
- 17. Microsoft A blessing and a curse
- 18. Coming of age Build an enthusiastic core
- 19. Coming of age Empower them
- 20. Coming of age Don't do everything yourself (you can't)
- 21. Coming of age Provide the foundations
- 22. Coming of age Let them run with it
- 23. Coming of age Never let management micro-manage you or dictate design decisions
- 24. What does this mean concretely? Cutting the umbilical cord: Governance. Yearly elected steering committee
- 25. What does this mean concretely? Glasnost
- 26. What does this mean concretely? Take the pulse of your community
- 27. What does this mean concretely? Be available on social media, IRC
- 28. What does this mean concretely? Gallery.OrchardProject.net
- 29. What does this mean concretely? Documentation: Github + Markdown + Lucene owned by Adrian Noble
- 30. What does this mean concretely? Localization: PO, online translation tool owned by Benedek Farkas
- 31. What does this mean concretely? ShowOrchard.com
- 32. What does this mean concretely? OrchardPrime.com
- 33. What does this mean concretely? OrchardMarket.com
- 34. What does this mean concretely? Weekly public podcast Demos Triage Recorded and published on YouTube
- 35. What does this mean concretely? Organize a conference
- 36. Do you need adoption? Build it for yourself
- 37. Do you need adoption? Don't try to satisfy everyone (you can't)
- 38. Do you need adoption? No user is better than dissatisfied users
- 39. How to deal with jerks? Ignore them?
- 40. How to deal with jerks? Mock them?
- 41. How to deal with jerks? Kill them with kindness
- 42. How to deal with jerks? Show them the way out
- 43. How to deal with jerks? You don't have to satisfy everyone
- 44. The most important thing You are building a community before a product
- 45. The other most important thing THANK YOU! Sébastien Ros Sipke Shoorstra Ylan Kunstler Piotr Szmyd Nick Mayne l Brett Morrison l Zoltan Lehóczky l Benedek Farkas l Adrian Noble l David Hayden l ...and many more