[$] Making institutional free software successful

Many large institutions, especially government agencies, would like todistribute their software-including the software of the vendors with whomthey contract-as free software. They have a variety of reasons, rangingfrom the hope that opening the code will boost its use, all the way toa mature understanding of the importance of community, transparency, andfreedom. There are special steps institutions can take to help ensure success,some stemming from best practices performed by many free-software projectsand others specific to large organizations. At the 2018 LibrePlanet conference,Cecilia Donnelly laid out nine principles for the successful creation and maintenance of a software project under thesecircumstances.