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Kyle Conroy
February 28, 2013
Programming
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Building Open Source Communities
#waza #2013
Kyle Conroy
February 28, 2013
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Transcript
BUILDING OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES
Today -Creating a community -Growing your membership -Keeping people happy
-Doing something awesome
@kyle_conroy
My journey building ‘s community
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WHY EVEN BUILD A COMMUNITY?
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THE VISION
Recreate the episode faithfully (with caveats)
FINDING A HOME
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Keep it asynchronous (with chat on the side)
ENCOURAGING CONTRIBUTIONS
Release early (and often)
Release early (and often)
Be n00b friendly (seriously)
$ make run
-README -CONTRIBUTING -Makefile -LICENSE -CONTRIBUTORS
-README -CONTRIBUTING -Makefile -LICENSE -CONTRIBUTORS
Make it stupid simple to contribute
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Clear work items (help wanted)
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Keep a clean house (tidy and neat)
Do regular house keeping
Pull Request Zero
Celebrate your contributors
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MANAGING YOUR PEOPLEBASE
Have a good time (fun can’t hurt)
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http://www.twitch.tv/derferman/b/333875625
Be responsive to feedback
Empower through automation
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The maintainer (anti-bikeshed)
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Code speaks louder than words
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Give the gift of commit access
More than just code
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THE FUTURE
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-http://projecthawkthorne.com -http:// reddit.com/r/hawkthorne -#hawkthorne on freenode -http:// twitter.com/thebrittabot Thanks!