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>10. Good project-management practice</H1
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>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.</P
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>For discussion of basic development organization and the
release-early-release-often `bazaar mode', see <A
HREF="http://www.catb.org/~esr//writings/cathedral-bazaar/"
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>The Cathedral and the
Bazaar</A
>.</P
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>For discussion of motivational psychology, community customs,
and conflict resolution, see <A
HREF="http://www.catb.org/~esr//writings/homesteading/"
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>Homesteading
the Noosphere</A
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>For discussion of economics and appropriate business models, see
<A
HREF="http://www.catb.org/~esr//writings/magic-cauldron/"
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>The Magic
Cauldron</A
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>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superseded (though the author hopes they will be someday).</P
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