This book looks pretty interesting: Open Advice - FOSS: What We Wish We Had Known When We Started. It's a collection of articles by well-known open source contributors. The PDF version is available under a CC-BY-SA licence. You can also buy a printed copy or get an ebook version at the website: Open Advice.

The book contains articles about the following aspects of open source projects:

• Development
• QA and testing
• Documentation
• UX
• Artwork and design
• Marketing
• The initial idea and research
• Infrastructure
• Community management, mentoring and recruitment
• Business and legal
• And more.

The authors are developers, testers, technical writers, and more:

• Alexandra Leisse
• Anne Gentle
• Atul Jha
• Dave Neary
• Jonathan "Duke" Leto
• Evan Prodromou
• Federico Mena Quintero
• Frank Karlitschek
• Georg Greve
• Guillaume Paumier
• Henri Bergius
• Jos Poortvliet
• Leslie Hawthorn
• Lydia Pintsche
• Máirín Duffy Strode
• Markus Krötzsch
• Nóirín Plunkett
• Rich Bowen
• Runa Bhattacharjee
• Selena Deckelmann
• Shaun McCance
• Stuart Jarvis
• Till Adam
• Armijn Hemel
• Felipe Ortega
• Kévin Ottens
• Jeff Mitchell
• Thiago Macieira
• Kai Blin
• Ara Pulido
• Andre Klapper
• Eugene Trounev
• Robert Kaye
• Jono Bacon
• Jonathan Riddell
• Thom May
• Vincent Untz
• Sally Khudairi
• Gareth J. Greenaway
• Carlo Daffara
• Dr. Till Jaeger
• Shane Coughlan
• Austin "scorche" Appel

They're collecting book reviews on Delicious: http://www.delicious.com/nightrose/openadvice

I haven't yet read the book in depth, but I've paged through a few of the articles. It's very interesting to see the variety of opinions and approaches.

Has anyone read the book yet, and what do you think of it?