Our vision for Open Source Guides is to provide a jumping off point for individuals, communities, and companies to sustainably embrace open source.

We started by focusing on open source creators, because they play a critical role in growing healthy projects. Creators help set good examples for contributors and consumers of open source. We also noticed there were very few comprehensive resources aimed at helping creators.

• Create a first set of guides that help creators start and grow their own open source project
• Make the guides public and release it as an open source project
• Expand Contributing to Open Source on GitHub to include community best practices for contributors, and move it to Open Source Guides
• Foster healthy community dynamics so the guides become a place to codify community best practices

We'll improve upon existing content and start to focus on additional content for open source consumers and contributors.

• Continue to improve the content for open source creators
• Improve guide discoverability for open source creators
• Expand the Open Source Guides to include content for open source consumers

Open source is complicated, especially for newcomers. Experienced contributors have learned many lessons about the best way to use, contribute to, and produce open source software. Everyone shouldn't have to learn those lessons the hard way. To give it more prominence, we want to move it from https://opensource.guide to a permanent home on https://github.com/open-source, where it will live alongside features and programs that help individuals, communities, and companies sustainably embrace open source. The content will remain open source for anyone to use.

This is our current plan. As with everything in the Open Source Guides project, it is open to community feedback.