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Building a healthy community around FOSS project

Dear Lazyweb, I am looking for suggestions for building a healthy community around one of my FOSS project.  Recently I initiated re-launching of  Zope 3 project with a new name: BlueBream . You may know from my old posts that I am very interested in Zope 3 and Zope Component Architecture (ZCA).  I have written an entire book about  ZCA in 2006. You can read more about the new project in the BlueBream project blog .  I am looking for your suggestions.  You can send mail to me: baiju.m.mail AT gmail.com or add comment here . Well, I will continue with my past experience with FOSS. This is my second largest FOSS project, the first project which I started in 2001 ( SMC ) is still very active.  However, for the past few years, I am not active in that project. I still watch that project growing (of course, I help them whenever possible ). There are more than 500 members in the group itself.  The developers regulary meet at various events.  They o...