Building a Developer Community from the Ground Up

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<p>In the Software world, Developer communities have been the de facto standard since the rise of the <a href="https://opensource.org/">Open Source movement</a>.&nbsp;Once started as a counter-culture alternative to the commercial dominance of Microsoft, open source spread rapidly way <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux">beyond its initial roots</a>. Nowadays, very few questions the motivations to offer an open source option as a valid go to market strategy. Many software vendors&nbsp;have&nbsp;been using this approach in the last few years to acquire customers through the <a href="https://hbr.org/2014/05/making-freemium-work">freemium</a>&nbsp;model and eventually generate significant business (<a href="http://www.redhat.com">Redhat</a> among others).&nbsp; From a marketing standpoint, a community is as a great vehicle to&nbsp;increase brand visibility and reach to the end users.</p>
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