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“What is Success?” by Evan Czaplicki
Elm Europe
Elm creator Evan Czaplicki's 2018 Elm Europe talk on how to define success for an open source project and language community. It argues against judging projects by GitHub activity and touches on community expectations.
Cited in debates over Elm's direction and open source health, with some praising its points about metrics and others finding its tone toward unhappy users hard to watch.
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