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Community-curated guides on starting, running, and contributing to open source projects, published as a Jekyll-built website.

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Useful for maintainers launching a project or communities setting up governance, contribution workflows, and licensing basics. It aggregates community practices with examples rather than a single vendor's view, and content is CC-BY-4.0 licensed.

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Created2016-06-15 (10y ago)

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