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The Bait & Switch of Open Source

The Bait & Switch of Open Source

Open Source sells itself as being about technical problems--delightfully thorny technical problems, at that. However, successful projects are filled with people, which introduces a whole different set of problems.

This talk tells a story about the many ways in which things went badly wrong because I didn’t treat people problems as first-class citizens in exercism.io.

Katrina Owen

May 18, 2016
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