Ideas
opensourcegovernanceleadershipdocumentation

WordPress leadership transition playbook

Create a guide for open-source project governance during leadership changes. Many projects face succession crises but lack documented processes.

Why now

Recent high-profile leadership struggles in major open-source projects show the need for better governance tools.

Who for
Open-source project leaders
Business model
Premium guide sales
Effort
A few weeks

Open-source projects often fail to plan for leadership transitions, leading to community fractures.

Develop a comprehensive guide with templates for succession planning, conflict resolution protocols and governance best practices. Sell to foundations and enterprise users.

Start by interviewing maintainers of major projects about their challenges. The risk is that many projects won't prioritize this until crisis hits.

This serves the growing number of mature open-source projects facing governance challenges.

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