The plausible promise

Google is writing about the Plausible Promise:

"When you start community-building, what you need to be able to present is a plausible promise. Your program doesn't have to work particularly well. It can be crude, buggy, incomplete, and poorly documented. What it must not fail to do is (a) run, and (b) convince potential co-developers that it can be evolved into something really neat in the foreseeable future."

It's a good read for any open source developer (or community builder for that matter) and is found here