Managing a healthy GitHub community

Managing an open-source community is easy when your project is small but grows harder the larger your project becomes. Learn how to grow your project’s community and ensure that it remains a healthy, happy and fun place.

Presented at FOSSASIA in 2016.

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1. Managing a healthy GitHub community Mike McQuaid
2. Mike McQuaid Maintainer (2009-16)
   github.com/MikeMcQuaid
3. ! Mike McQuaid Senior Engineer (2013-16) github.com/mikemcquaid
4. Small © Ray_LAC
5. Medium © woodleywonderworks
6. Large © James Cridland
7. 3 groups to keep
8. maintainers
9. (vocal) users
10. (quiet) users %
11. maintainers
12. Code of Conduct
13. Private Chat
14. Always Growing
15. (vocal) users
16. Stop Bikeshedding
17. Mailing List and IRC ☎
18. Close Feature Requests
19. (quiet) users %
20. High Quality
21. No Guilt Merges
22. No v2.0
23. 3 groups to keep
24. Questions?