Welcome home! How the best projects lower the contribution barrier

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYOJRG8pics

Josh Dzielak is a developer advocate and software engineer, and currently the cofounder and CTO of Orbit. Prior to Orbit, Josh led the developer relations team at Algolia and was the VP Engineering at Keen IO. It was there Josh started developing the Orbit Model, an alternative to the marketing funnel that works better for community and apoption. Community has played a major role in Josh's career, and he seeks to pay it forward by developing tools to help community-minded folks accomplish more & show the impact of their work.

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   Welcome Home! How the Best Projects Lower
   the Contribution Barrier
   󰞛 Josh Dzielak · @dzello ·
   Co-Founder & CTO · Orbit
   

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   About me
   Josh Dzielak
   Developer Advocate
   Co-Founder orbit.love
   @dzello
   

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   What’s Orbit?
   

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   Contributor
   Experience has a
   pineapple problem
   

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   “It can be intimidating to contribute to FOSS projects with so many
   unknowns: the tools, process, style, culture, and more. Not to mention
   sharing one's work with the world!”
   Google Open Source
   

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   “Developing and sustaining a healthy community of contributors is
   critical to scaling the project and growing the ecosystem. We need to
   ensure our contributors are happy and productive, and that there are not
   bottlenecks hindering the project...”
   Kubernetes Contributor Experience Special Interest Group
   https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-contributor-experience
   

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   “My first contribution to open
   source was extremely small.”
   Kent C. Dodds
   Open Source Maintainer
   

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   “I think there's a barrier of entry, and I've been using this term called
   ‘Unintentional gatekeeping,"’ where if I happen to work on a team with
   the guy who started Node.js or started some other framework or a library,
   I have so much more information and an advantage because I happen to
   be in the right room at the right time.”
   Brian Douglas
   @bdougieyo
   

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   The Art of Welcoming
   

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    How do you like to be welcomed?
    A B C
    

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    How do you like to be welcomed?
    A B C
    

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    #GitLabCommit
    How do you like to be welcomed?
    A B C
    

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    #GitLabCommit
    #GitLabCommit
    Making a
    great first
    impression
    Gatsby
    🤖gatsbot
    

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    #GitLabCommit
    Making a
    great first
    impression
    Fedora
    https://whatcanidoforfedora.org
    

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    #GitLabCommit
    #GitLabCommit
    Making a
    great first
    impression
    GitLab
    ~“good for new contributors”
    #myFirstMRMerged
    

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    Making a
    great first
    impression
    #goodfirstissue
    http://goodfirstissue.dev/
    “We believe getting developers to fix
    super-easy issues removes the barrier
    for future contributions. This is why
    Good First Issue exists.”
    

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    #GitLabCommit
    #GitLabCommit
    Making a
    great first
    impression
    Open Sauced by
    Brian Douglas / @bdougieyo
    https://opensauced.pizza/
    Bonus: Hear Brian speak about
    unintentional gatekeeping and
    more on Orbit’s new podcast
    Developer Love.
    

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    👋 @dzello
    Thank You
    

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