Contributing to & funding Open Source

Talk given (pretty spontaneously) at Barcamp Salzburg (The Next Web) on April 9th, 2016.

Abstract:
With its source code made freely available, Open Source Software allows its users to become co-developers and have a say in the decision-making process. But what happens when those opinionated users are less diverse than we would like them to be? The tech industry has a diversity problem, and so does the Open Source community, with women making up a mere 11% of FLOSS contributors.
This is why the Open Source community needs you: In my talk I will explain what contributing to Open Source means, show examples of different contributions (social as well as technical) and introduce ways to get started. Hopefully by the end, I will have inspired you to go out there and find a project you’re passionate about — enough to want to improve it, and the Open Source community, one small contribution at a time.

Transcript

1. Laura Gaetano @alicetragedy Artist, Web developer, Organiser, Open Source enthusiast Travis Foundation Rails Girls Summer of Code ROSSConf
2. Contributing to & funding Open Source Software
4. What is Open Source Software?
5. Why contributing?
6. Why contributing? giving something back
7. Why contributing? improving your skills
8. Why contributing? growing your network
9. Contributions
10. Contributions Bug reports & fixes features requests feature implementations
11. Contributions Writing tests Testing the code & giving feedback
12. Writing documentation Contributions
13. Contributions Translation
14. Contributions Design
15. Contributions Promoting the project
16. Contributions Coach, teach, mentor
17. Getting started
18. Getting started @yourfirstpr
19. Getting started OpenHatch.org
20. Getting started contribute to a project which matters
21. Getting started contribute to a project which matters to you
22. Maintainers: Make your project accessible!
23. Making your project accessible tag issues as “newcomer-friendly” on your bug tracker
24. Making your project accessible provide set up and contributing information in your readme
25. Making your project accessible add a code of conduct
26. ROSSConf
27. I love Open Source, but
28. I love Open Source, but the community is not diverse
29. I love Open Source, but the projects are underfunded
30. Improving diversity in Open Source Software
32. Improving funding in Open Source Software
34. everybody is building software, but ignoring the tools we need to build it. Nadia Eghbal