Build Public-Good Open Source Step by Step
The Learning Hub is an ordered set of guides for planning, launching, and maintaining public-good Open Source projects.
Use the Categories as Project Stages
Each category represents a common stage in an Open Source project. You do not need to read everything in order. Pick the stage that matches your current problem, use the guides inside it, then move to the next stage when your project is ready.
- Find Your Stage. Use the numbered categories to locate the work you are doing now.
- Read the Guides. Each category contains practical posts, prompts, and examples for that stage.
- Use Member Resources. Free members can pair the guides with templates, checklists, and community discussion.
01. Getting Started
For turning a rough idea into a clear problem, audience, purpose, and first next step.
02. Ideation & Discovery
For checking whether the idea is useful before you invest too much time building it.
03. Planning & Scoping
For deciding what to build first, what to skip, and how the project should be structured.
04. Initial Development
For setting up the repository, docs, workflow, and first usable version of the project.
05. Testing & Validation
For checking quality, accessibility, privacy, security, and usefulness before a wider release.
06. Release & Launch
For packaging the project, explaining it clearly, and helping people try or adopt it.
07. Community & Contribution
For making contribution, feedback, and collaboration easier for people outside the core team.
08. Maintenance & Iteration
For keeping the project reliable, documented, responsive, and improving after launch.
09. Sustainability & Scaling
For planning ownership, support, funding readiness, impact, and responsible growth.
10. Sunset & Legacy
For handling handoffs, archives, shutdowns, and long-term preservation when a project changes direction.
Use Templates and Checklists as You Move Through the Path
Members get practical builder resources, project submission guidance, and access to the community hub.