Building Open Source Communities

#waza #2013

1. BUILDING OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES
2. Today -Creating a community -Growing your membership -Keeping people happy -Doing something awesome
3. @kyle_conroy
4. My journey building ‘s community
11. WHY EVEN BUILD A COMMUNITY?
15. THE VISION
16. Recreate the episode faithfully (with caveats)
17. FINDING A HOME
20. Keep it asynchronous (with chat on the side)
21. ENCOURAGING CONTRIBUTIONS
22. Release early (and often)
23. Release early (and often)
24. Be n00b friendly (seriously)
25. $ make run
26. -README -CONTRIBUTING -Makefile -LICENSE -CONTRIBUTORS
27. -README -CONTRIBUTING -Makefile -LICENSE -CONTRIBUTORS
28. Make it stupid simple to contribute
33. Clear work items (help wanted)
35. Keep a clean house (tidy and neat)
36. Do regular house keeping
37. Pull Request Zero
38. Celebrate your contributors
40. MANAGING YOUR PEOPLEBASE
41. Have a good time (fun can’t hurt)
43. http://www.twitch.tv/derferman/b/333875625
44. Be responsive to feedback
45. Empower through automation
47. The maintainer (anti-bikeshed)
49. Code speaks louder than words
51. Give the gift of commit access
52. More than just code
54. THE FUTURE
56. -http://projecthawkthorne.com -http:// reddit.com/r/hawkthorne -#hawkthorne on freenode -http:// twitter.com/thebrittabot Thanks!