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Making an Awesome Open-Source Project

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March 14, 2012
Programming
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Making an Awesome Open-Source Project

Presentation given first at PrairieDevCon in Calgary, AB

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Ana Betts

March 14, 2012

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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

  7. None

  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

  12. None

  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?>

  19. None

  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!

  27. None

  28. Make everything easy don’t make me think!

  29. None
  30. None

  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!