How to (Almost) Kill a Successful Project and Bring It Back to Life Again: Lessons Learned from the Xen Project (37 pages)

Crash Course in Perception

Management

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Go to local FOSS events

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Submit talks

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Get used to rejection and learn from it

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Talk to the track chairmam

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“I don’t like speaking” – get over it; calculus was
way harder than this

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Get an ORG booth for cheap

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Stock it with flyers, CDs, business cards,
stickers

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Shoot your mouth off

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Blogs

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A usable website

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Podcasts (TLLTS)

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Social Media

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Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn

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More mouthing off

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YouTube demos and tutorials

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Write for Linux.com Lxer, LWN.net

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Get a “kick-*aas” mascot!

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But our buddy Xen Fu is taken!

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Shout out and live, or shut up and die!

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Passion is your ally

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Let it leak over everyone

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Don’t imitate the suits; do what fits you