I thought the community of open-source software could take a tip. Most of the sites you see for open-source software are basically places where you can check out code may be from a different branch checking in and talk to others. Some of the sites that are really taking off now the social network sites and the sites have forums because everyone can talk about that particular topic or niche. Here is a forum where someone posted about a GoDaddy coupon as an example and many people have replied to it. This is a great way to get the community involved, actually to get people talking to each other.

So what happens from what I have seen in the forums is that 10% of the people are actually posting and answering but yet 90% of the people who are there are reading the replies and information. So you can actually impact a large group of people and give them very valuable information by discussing issues in an open forum. So when discussing code issues or changes or problems and solutions why not do it in an open forum so can have the greatest impact in many can learn about it. Many times and open-source software people work on small pieces in each one of the pieces will have their own little community. But if everyone could learn from what went right or wrong and how it was fixed or how it was architected for each piece that everyone could benefit from many different projects.

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