6 Things You Can Do Right Now To Improve Your Open Source Project

This document was prepared by the OpenSource@Stanford team as just-right-sized, magazine-style format for conveying best practices that all academic open source software projects should consider. There are more comprehensive guides out there, but this is one you can easily read and digest, and do 1 or 2 of these things on your lunch break.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Published
2025-05-25
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15678443
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Open Source Software Innovations
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6 Things You Can Do Right Now To Improve Your Open Source Project

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Open Source Software Innovations
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6 Things You Can Do Right Now To Improve Your Open Source Project

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Abstract

This document was prepared by the OpenSource@Stanford team as just-right-sized, magazine-style format for conveying best practices that all academic open source software projects should consider. There are more comprehensive guides out there, but this is one you can easily read and digest, and do 1 or 2 of these things on your lunch break.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Stanford University (US)
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Open Source Software Innovations
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