Making an Awesome Open-Source Project

Presentation given first at PrairieDevCon in Calgary, AB

Transcript

1. Step 1: Write Code
2. Step 2: Now I’m John Resig.
3. Making an Awesome Open Source Project!
4. github @xpaulbettsx
5. Pourquoi?
6. Sharing Code is Sharing Ideas
8. Ideas that spread, win.
9. Code should solve problems
10. The code is the easiest part
11. Think like a developer this should come naturally
13. If you saw this would you use it?
14. Even this: What does it do?!
15. Landing Page What does it do Why is it cool Elevator Pitch Call to Action
16. demo (?)
17. Documentation You get it, how can your users?
18. <xml?>
20. Blogging is Important
21. Mailing Lists let Devs help Devs
22. Don’t fix user- submitted bugs
23. Dev Documentation Nobody will ever read your documentation
24. Developers Learn by Doing
25. Make great Error Messages
26. QuickStart!
28. Make everything easy don’t make me think!
31. Instructions are documentation of UX failure
32. SassAndCoffee: As Easy as Possible
33. Sum it all up, like that guy from Scrubs It’s not just about the code Make it easy for your users Developers don’t read anything Make everything as easy as possible
34. Thanks!