Building Open Source Communities

Presented at Craft Conf. Slides with speaker notes are available at https://static.ashfurrow.com/blog/building-open-source-communities.pdf

Transcript

1. open source Building communities
2. Moya
3. Communities
5. social is a activity Programming
6. programming? What is
8. –SICP Introduction “Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute”
9. Optimize for socialization
11. Make contributing really easy
14. Make contributing feel good
15. threat are the biggest to your project You
16. ego Ignore your
17. organization Become an
22. burn out Please don’t
25. Empower contributors
26. Aeryn
28. contributing? What even is
31. good is Open source
32. for business Open source is good
34. for apps Open source is good
36. for people Open source is good
37. –Steven Universe “Working hard is important, but feeling good is important too.”
38. by default Open source
39. isn’t scary Open source