DevClub Tallinn: How to Make Your OSS Project Successful

1. How To Make 
 Your OSS Project Successful (without writing it in JavaScript) @bsideup Sergei Egorov, Pivotal
2. About me • Staff Engineer at Pivotal’s Spring R&D, working on Project Reactor ⚛ • Berlin Spring User Group co-organizer • Testcontainers co-maintainer • Apache member @bsideup
3. a.k.a.
5. Why doing OSS?
6. To build a better world?
7. @bsideup
8. @bsideup
9. Pleeeeease… @bsideup
10. Money making? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cartoon_Guy_Mining_Lots_Of_Money_Online.svg @bsideup
11. @bsideup
12. @bsideup
13. The point of OSS You trying to earn $ @bsideup
14. http://insight-rec.com/with-insight-sharing-is-caring/ @bsideup
15. Just imagine the world… @bsideup
16. Just imagine the world… @bsideup
17. Without OSS.
18. Back to “building a better world”?
19. Why *you* should do OSS? @bsideup
20. “I noticed your GitHub profile, <…>” “Oh, you maintain X? We love the project!” “I know you!” “Can you do a workshop?” @bsideup
21. @bsideup
22. SHUT UP AND TAKE MY… COMMITS! @bsideup
23. Well… likely…
24. @bsideup
25. OSS is like a zombie apocalypse Who you expect to be Who you will actually be @bsideup
26. GitHub is like a zombie apocalypse too Your Java library JavaScript projects @bsideup
27. 3 types of popular OSS projects @bsideup
28. 3 types of popular OSS projects • JavaScript projects (NodeJS, Express, TypeScript, React, Angular, …) @bsideup
29. 3 types of popular OSS projects • JavaScript projects (NodeJS, Express, TypeScript, React, Angular, …) • Projects that help running these JS projects (Kubernetes, Docker, …) @bsideup
30. 3 types of popular OSS projects • JavaScript projects (NodeJS, Express, TypeScript, React, Angular, …) • Projects that help running these JS projects (Kubernetes, Docker, …) • Those who remind you why JS is bad :D (Go projects, Spring, …) @bsideup
31. but…
32. if you managed to 
 create something great…
33. Give it a good name >_< @bsideup
34. Why name is important
35. Watch your users!
36. Don’t be creeppy! @bsideup
37. Watching via GitHub
38. https://github.com/search?q=testcontainers&s=indexed&type=Code @bsideup
39. https://github.com/search?q=testcontainers&s=created&type=Issues @bsideup
40. Know your issues @bsideup
41. Join forces! @bsideup
42. Join forces! @bsideup
43. Collaborate @bsideup
44. Grow the team @bsideup
45. Testcontainers’ co-maintainer now ;) Grow the team @bsideup
46. Help others spread the word @bsideup
47. Learn new use cases @bsideup
48. Inspire yourself & team! @bsideup
49. @bsideup
50. @bsideup
51. LOL @bsideup
52. Use GitHub Insights!
53. @bsideup Know your forks
54. @bsideup Know your forks
55. @bsideup
56. @bsideup
57. @bsideup
58. Watching via Twitter
59. https://twitter.com/search?q=jabel%20java&f=live @bsideup
60. Use smart search queries @bsideup
61. Use smart search queries @bsideup
62. Save queries @bsideup
63. Save queries @bsideup
64. Save queries @bsideup
65. Save queries @bsideup
66. Single-word unique names FTW! @bsideup
67. Although sometimes they’re not that unique @bsideup
68. Although sometimes they’re not that unique @bsideup
69. Does it all work?
70. You tell me :) @bsideup https://star-history.t9t.io/#testcontainers/testcontainers-java
71. You tell me :) @bsideup We started promoting the project https://star-history.t9t.io/#testcontainers/testcontainers-java
72. Hype & hot vs “Single malt” @bsideup
73. Bonus
74. Talk about your projects! :D
75. Talk about your projects! :D Testcontainers Jabel Liiklus BlockHound Spring
76. @bsideup bsideup