Problem Solution Unique Value Community Relationships Users

Proposition
What problem are you trying to
solve for your users?
Open source considerations
Why is the solution open
source?
To provide free offering?
To build up community?
Other reasons?
What is the solution? What is the promise of your What are strategic relationships that Describe a typical user of
project? are critical to building up your your project
Open source considerations community?
Independent versus Foundation? Open source considerations Contributors Contributors
Which License? Does the fact that it is open Project evangelists Who are users that are most
source contribute to the Thought leaders likely to contribute to your
uniqueness of your offering? Integrations with other projects project Super Users?
How?
Activities Channels
What are the inbound and Through which channels will you
outbound activities you will carry reach your users?
out to encourage engagement Collaboration partners who will
with the project (e.g. conferences, distribute/expose project
blog posts, social media etc.)? Web, Social media etc.
Face to face (meetups, conferences
etc.)

Cost and Resources Adoption Criteria

What human resources are required? Examples: How do you measure success of the project? Examples:
Project Maintainers (responsible for code governance etc.) Size of community (number of issues/pull requests/stars etc.)
Paid engineers (core team to initiate the project or continue contributing) Number of contributors
Community Manager Contributions (scale, variety, etc.)
Evangelist Usage
Contributors to Community (not paid) Conversion rate (if your business model includes upgrade to enterprise version)
Other costs? Examples:
Infrastructure/services
marketing
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