Contributing to Open Source Doesn’t Require Changing the World

Slides + Notes: https://gist.github.com/orta/6ba0c674a0812a6220ca

Not every change has to be as big as CocoaPods. Sometimes smaller interactions can be just as important as the bigger ones. If OSS is transparent but not easily permeable, then how can that barrier be made easier to get through?

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1. Orta Therox ! @orta
2. Co-contributors 4 Steve Klabnik 4 Aiden Feldmen @orta
3. OSS @orta
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5. MIT/BSD/GPL @orta
6. MIT/BSD/GPL yawn ! @orta
7. Open Community @orta
8. Bazaar vs Cathedral @orta
9. Managing the Bazaar @orta
10. Transparent but not easily permeable ! @orta
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12. Writing a patch is the easiest part of open source. @orta
13. The truly hard stuff is all of the rest: bug trackers, mailing lists, documentation, and other management tasks. -- Steve Klabnik @orta
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15. Maven Rubygems npm @orta
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17. Entering the bubble @orta
18. 4 For non-technicals 4 For technicals @orta
19. Non-Technical 4 Managers 4 Designers 4 Students 4 Product Managers @orta
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22. Abusing work power for OSS @orta
23. Remote Developers @orta
24. Ad-hoc project ownership @orta
25. Forks over mono-repos @orta
26. Culture of Code Review @orta
27. Code Owned by Owner @orta
28. Open Source by Default @orta
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30. Example GIFs.app @orta
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36. Without his contribution this app would not be on the Store @orta
37. All done via email @orta
38. Non-Technical 4 Managers 4 Designers 4 Students 4 Product Managers @orta
39. Srishti 1st year in University @orta
40. Friends with OSS developers @orta
41. Helps out in IRC and Slack @orta
42. Non-Technical 4 Managers 4 Designers 4 Students 4 Product Managers @orta
43. Emma Koszinowski & Karla Sandoval @orta
44. Rails Girls Summer of Code @orta
45. Got mentors Get paid @orta
46. Not all OSS is Code @orta
47. Appsterdam @orta
48. Successfully abusing GitHub @orta
49. 4 For non-technicals 4 For technicals @orta
50. 4 Workshops @orta
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53. Lowering Barriers @orta
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60. Buddy Systems @orta
61. Automate Away the Barrier @orta
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65. Run community events @orta
66. Test Jam @orta
67. Bug Bash @orta
68. Contibute to Charities @orta
69. Project Manage @orta
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71. But what if my code sucks? @orta
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74. Seriously @orta
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76. Ouch @orta
77. The day later @orta
78. I want to make it clear that you should definitely still open source your code. @orta
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