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**Consider creating a website for your project.** A website makes your project friendlier and easier to navigate, especially when it's paired with clear documentation and tutorials. Having a website also suggests that your project is active which will make your audience feel more comfortable using it. Provide examples to give people ideas for how to use your project.
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[@adrianholovaty](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7531689), co-creator of Django, said that a website was _"by far the best thing we did with Django in the early days"_.
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[@adrianholovaty](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7531689), co-creator of Django, said that a website was _" by far the best thing we did with Django in the early days"_.
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If your project is hosted on GitHub, you can use [GitHub Pages](https://pages.github.com/) to easily make a website. [Yeoman](http://yeoman.io/), [Vagrant](https://www.vagrantup.com/), and [Middleman](https://middlemanapp.com/) are [a few examples](https://github.com/showcases/github-pages-examples) of excellent, comprehensive websites.
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If you've never spoken at an event before, it's perfectly normal to feel nervous! Remember that your audience is there because they genuinely want to hear about your work.
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As you write your talk, focus on what your audience will find interesting and get value out of. Keep your language friendly and approachable. Smile, breathe, and have fun.
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As you write your talk, focus on what your audience will find interesting and get value out of. Keep your language friendly and approachable. Smile, breathe and have fun.
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In addition to the strategies outlined above, the best way to invite people to share and contribute to your project is to share and contribute to their projects.
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Helping newcomers, sharing resources, and making thoughtful contributions to others' projects will help you build a positive reputation. Being an active member in the open source community will help people have context for your work and be more likely to pay attention to and share your project. Developing relationships with other open source projects can even lead to official partnerships.
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Helping newcomers, sharing resources, and making thoughtful contributions to others' projects will help you build a positive reputation. Being an active member of the open source community will help people have context for your work and be more likely to pay attention to and share your project. Developing relationships with other open source projects can even lead to official partnerships.
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PhantomJS was released for the first time in the beginning of 2011. (...) I spread the word in the usual ways: I tweeted about it, I wrote blog posts on things you could do with it, I mentioned it during various discussions in meetups. When it became more well known in 2014, I started giving presentations about it.
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PhantomJS was released for the first time at the beginning of 2011. (...) I spread the word in the usual ways: I tweeted about it, I wrote blog posts on things you could do with it, I mentioned it during various discussions in meetups. When it became more well known in 2014, I started giving presentations about it.
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@ariya, ["Maintainer Stories"](https://github.com/open-source/stories/ariya)
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