This document discusses 10 common mistakes made when running an Apache project and how to avoid them. These include starting development on GitHub without an IP agreement, keeping the project secret instead of promoting it, not fostering diversity among contributors, holding exclusive in-person meetings, including binary artifacts, having a high barrier for committer status, ignoring trademark issues, not rewarding open source work, engaging in stealth development, and licensing problems. The key recommendations are to build an open community, do work transparently, train employees on open source best practices, and ensure proper licensing.