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Sergei Egorov
September 24, 2019
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DevClub Tallinn: How to Make Your OSS Project Successful
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Transcript
How To Make Your OSS Project Successful (without writing
it in JavaScript) @bsideup Sergei Egorov, Pivotal
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
a.k.a.
None
Why doing OSS?
To build a better world?
@bsideup
@bsideup
Pleeeeease… @bsideup
Money making? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cartoon_Guy_Mining_Lots_Of_Money_Online.svg @bsideup
@bsideup
@bsideup
The point of OSS You trying to earn $ @bsideup
http://insight-rec.com/with-insight-sharing-is-caring/ @bsideup
Just imagine the world… @bsideup
Just imagine the world… @bsideup
Without OSS.
Back to “building a better world”?
Why *you* should do OSS? @bsideup
“I noticed your GitHub profile, <…>” “Oh, you maintain X?
We love the project!” “I know you!” “Can you do a workshop?” @bsideup
@bsideup
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY… COMMITS! @bsideup
Well… likely…
@bsideup
OSS is like a zombie apocalypse Who you expect to
be Who you will actually be @bsideup
GitHub is like a zombie apocalypse too Your Java library
JavaScript projects @bsideup
3 types of popular OSS projects @bsideup
3 types of popular OSS projects • JavaScript projects (NodeJS,
Express, TypeScript, React, Angular, …) @bsideup
3 types of popular OSS projects • JavaScript projects (NodeJS,
Express, TypeScript, React, Angular, …) • Projects that help running these JS projects (Kubernetes, Docker, …) @bsideup
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
but…
if you managed to create something great…
Give it a good name >_< @bsideup
Why name is important
Watch your users!
Don’t be creeppy! @bsideup
Watching via GitHub
https://github.com/search?q=testcontainers&s=indexed&type=Code @bsideup
https://github.com/search?q=testcontainers&s=created&type=Issues @bsideup
Know your issues @bsideup
Join forces! @bsideup
Join forces! @bsideup
Collaborate @bsideup
Grow the team @bsideup
Testcontainers’ co-maintainer now ;) Grow the team @bsideup
Help others spread the word @bsideup
Learn new use cases @bsideup
Inspire yourself & team! @bsideup
@bsideup
@bsideup
LOL @bsideup
Use GitHub Insights!
@bsideup Know your forks
@bsideup Know your forks
@bsideup
@bsideup
@bsideup
Watching via Twitter
https://twitter.com/search?q=jabel%20java&f=live @bsideup
Use smart search queries @bsideup
Use smart search queries @bsideup
Save queries @bsideup
Save queries @bsideup
Save queries @bsideup
Save queries @bsideup
Single-word unique names FTW! @bsideup
Although sometimes they’re not that unique @bsideup
Although sometimes they’re not that unique @bsideup
Does it all work?
You tell me :) @bsideup https://star-history.t9t.io/#testcontainers/testcontainers-java
You tell me :) @bsideup We started promoting the project
https://star-history.t9t.io/#testcontainers/testcontainers-java
Hype & hot vs “Single malt” @bsideup
Bonus
Talk about your projects! :D
Talk about your projects! :D Testcontainers Jabel Liiklus BlockHound Spring
@bsideup bsideup