Open-Source Maintainership and Community in 2016

Large open-source projects are changing the way they operate to reflect changes in maintainership and contribution patterns. Improvements in GitHub, test frameworks, and communication tools like chatops have made parts of OSS easier... and others way harder. In this talk, I'll walk through the evolution of our contribution and community processes on Puppet and its related projects over the last several years, to examine our successes -- and a few notable failures. I'll close with some ideas and suggestions, both to help maintainers improve the quality and quantity of their contributions, and to help both new and seasoned contributors have a great experience working on open-source projects.

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1. Open Source, Open Communities Maintainership and contribution in 2016 Eric Sorenson // @ahpook eric.sorenson@puppet.com
2. Old models Forces for Change Adaptations What you can do next
3. Ye olden days
9. Cathedral and Bazaar / ORA
12. oh my zsh
15. Recent Developments
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19. Recent Developments Registries and small modules
20. Recent Developments
21. Recent Developments meritocracy considered harmful
22. Recent Developments meritocracy considered harmful
23. Recent Developments
25. - look for a project that suits your temperament as well as your technical skills. - if you're going to embark on a big feature or refactor, spend a little time talking about it first! - work on PRs iteratively and don't be afraid to push up a bunch of commits and squash it later. - work with your organisation to get approval to contribute back
26. - set up testing infrastructure so you can give commit bits - find or create a slack community - don't tolerate jerks. - have design discussions in the open - find some way to flag your issues as being newbie-friendly.
27. Photo Credits Photos are by Eric Sorenson CC/SA/NC except where noted. PDP-11 - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3APdp-11-70-panel.jpg Collabocats - https://octodex.github.com/collabocats oh my zsh - https://medium.freecodecamp.com/d-oh-my-zsh-af99ca54212c#.g865cff22 disrupt band logo - http://billtmiller.com/kp/disrupt.gif bicycle evolution - worlds best bike stickers fryman / chatops - talk at rackspace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhzxnY7FIvg meritocracy rug - collaboration rug - http://www.dailydot.com/debug/tech-industry-lesbians-who-tech/