The Open Source Contributor Funnel

Every open-source project wishes it had more maintainers to help run things. Learn from Mike McQuaid, maintainer of the Homebrew project for 7 years with over 5500 contributors, how to encourage and increase participation in your open-source project.

Presented at CodeConf in 2016.

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1. The Contributor Funnel: Turning Users Into Maintainers !▶ Mike McQuaid
2. Mike McQuaid Maintainer (2009-16)
   github.com/MikeMcQuaid
3. ! Mike McQuaid Senior Engineer (2013-16) github.com/mikemcquaid
4. group funnel upsell retain
5. group !
6. users !
7. contributors
8. maintainers
9. funnel
10. leads prospects sales
11. users contributors maintainers
12. upsell ☝
16. github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/share/doc/homebrew/How-To-Open-a-Homebrew-Pull-Request-(and-get-it-merged).md
17. github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/share/doc/homebrew/New-Maintainer-Checklist.md
18. retain
19. users high quality no guilt merges no v2.0
20. contributors no bike shedding ☎ mailing list/IRC no feature issues
21. maintainers code of conduct private chat always growing
22. group funnel upsell retain
23. questions?