Including People (MagmaConf 2015)

This talk is about the twin open source project goals of, on the one hand, increasing participation and contribution to an open source project, and on the other hand including everyone while eliminating discrimination and harassment (whether deliberate or accidental). I'll talk about different approaches to reducing discrimination, including better documentation, better development tooling, explicit onboarding process, and codes of conduct. I'll discuss how those strategies have played on on projects I participate in, both small and large. I also cover concrete steps that anyone can take to help increase acceptance and diversity in the communities and open source projects that they are involved in.

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1. Including people
2. Including people !"#$%&
3. André Arko @indirect
5. The Ruby Way therubyway.io
6. stickers!
8. stickers!
10. stickers!
11. including people in projects & communities
12. experiences and suggestions some
13. “diversity” let’s talk about
14. bias & exclusion we have a problem
15. is a lie told by meritocracy rich white men
16. the economic argument for diversity is diversionary bullshit
17. including people is an attitude and a philosophy of interaction
18. projects need to include their teams
19. projects need to include contributors
20. projects need to include users
21. users pay more attention than you think they do
22. code of conduct makes it clear your project will not tolerate harassment
23. documentation first point of contact with your project for most people
24. write tutorials topic guides an API reference troubleshooting docs
25. accept issue reports gracefully
26. listen and speak respectfully
27. contributors are like users, but more helpful
28. ask for help people like helping
29. write docs just for potential or current contributors
30. pull requests are just issues with work done for you
31. your team is people
32. respect and empathy
33. are why you’re here respect & empathy
34. are all that matters. respect & empathy