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This presentation was an example of another great talk on the concept of Designing open source software by taking input from the user community that uses it because in reality that is the main strength of the open source software, the community that backs this methodology and supports it whole heartedly. The main theme of the Mike presentation rested in 3 summary points that he made:
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1. Listen to your community: They are the users of your software and their input is very important in the development and success of your software, listen to their feedback, suggestions and inputs because alienating them can make your software suffer in the long run.<br><br>2. Lead your community: Leading the community is hard one but it is most beneficial because it makes you as product leader to develop standards and set examples by which the work would be done and completed and this is how your community evaluates the quality of your work and take active part and interest in it.<br><br>
3. Let your community play and experiment: This is where the strength of open source community lies in, the ability to experiment and play with the software as the user desires. To create some new extensions for self and accumulated needs of the community for new added features and requirements. This sort of ideology builds a strong community which supports and trusts its developers because there is no hidden agenda in their products, everything is out in the open for everyone to see and experiment with. And open source community benefits the most from this sort of trust and user experimentation because it results in some marvelous and strong applications.
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