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As a developer, you can administer your project – which gives you control of who are your trusted developers, who can contribute content, and who is following your activity. If your project is posted on MonitoringForge, only project members can post comments, bugs, docs or the likes.

Project redirecting

There are two ways you can present your content on MonitoringForge. First, you can set up a redirect to another site if you have one or prefer to manage outside of MonitoringForge. To do this, create a project or plugin through the registration form, and add in the location for the files. This allows your project to gain MonitoringForge visibility without requiring that you manage two development ecosystems. You will, however, need to check in periodically and approve the community members who want to participate in your project – but you’ll get email alerts.

Project hosting

The second way to present your content on MonitoringForge is to create and host your project on MonitoringForge. To begin, register your project or plugin in the appropriate area and follow the registration steps. Few things to consider immediately – the project name, make it unique and unused. Google your ideas to see if there’s anything else like it already in existence. Secondly, choose your open source license wisely. The OSI is a great resource for open source licenses. OSI also offers help about licenses too.

For great advice on how to attract developers and build your community, check out “The Art of Community” by Jono Bacon. Bacon explains how to set up project goals, execution plans, how to recruit help, what to do with community centric tools like what MonitoringForge provides, and even governance for when your project becomes wildly successful.