# Growing the community around your open-source project

DevFeed: [Growing the community around your open-source project](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/growing-the-community-around-your-open-source-project-40717.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://radek.io/posts/marketing-for-open-source-projects-5/>)

Published: 2015-10-12T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Radek Pazdera](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/radek-pazdera.md>)

Topics: [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [issue tracker](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/issue-tracker.md>), [Documentation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/documentation.md>)

Tags: [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [documentation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/documentation.md>), [growth](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/growth.md>), [issue-tracker](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/issue-tracker.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [project](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/project.md>), [users](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/users.md>)

## AI overview

The fifth and final article in a series about marketing open-source projects explains how to keep a project community growing. It recommends identifying manageable problems, maintaining issue trackers and documentation, responding to newcomers, and recognizing when limited audience size or technology decline constrains contributor growth.

## Source excerpt

Marketing for open-source projects #5