Growing an Open Source Project by Rick Harding
"If you build it, they will come" except not really. Rick describes the highs and lows of running an open source project over four years. From the awesomeness of the patch from an outsider to the feeble attempts at landing one small commit a day he'll bring an in the trenches view on building a community, doing what you love, and the advantages of having your own pet project out there in the wild.
Rick is the creator of Bookie, an open source bookmark management web application in his spare time, and employee of Canonical doing more OSS development during his office time.