Remember …

1. Whoever comes are the right people.
2. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have.
3. Whenever it starts is the right time.
4. When it’s over, it’s over.

Appropriated from Eric S. Raymond 19 steps to creating good open source software.

1. Every good work by a curator starts by scratching a personal itch.
2. Good curators know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
3. Plan to throw a project away; you will, anyhow.
4. If you have the right attitude, interesting projects will find you.
5. When you lose interest in a project, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.
6. Treating your audience as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid project improvement and effective accessibility.
7. Release early. Release often. And listen to your audience.
8. Given a large enough collaboration base, almost every project will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone.
9. Smart information structures and bad interpretation works a lot better than the other way around.
10. If you treat your audience as if they’re your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource.
11. The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your audience.
12. Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong.
13. Perfection (in curating) is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away.
14. Any exhibition should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great exhibition lends itself to audiences you never expected.
15. When curating an exhibition of any kind, take pains to disturb the theme as little as possible—and never throw away information unless the audience forces you to!
16. When your language is well formed yet arbitrary, syntactic sugar can be your friend.
17. Beware of pseudo-secrets. If you carry any secrets let them go.
18. To solve an interesting problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you.
19. Provided your communications medium is flawless, and you lead without coercion, many heads are inevitably better than one.

(via mfathinking)