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The Open Source Contributor Funnel

Mike McQuaid
June 28, 2016
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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.

Mike McQuaid

June 28, 2016
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Transcript

  1. The Contributor Funnel:
    Turning Users
    Into Maintainers
    !▶
    Mike McQuaid

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  2. Mike McQuaid
    Maintainer (2009-16)
    github.com/MikeMcQuaid

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  3. !
    Mike McQuaid
    Senior Engineer (2013-16)
    github.com/mikemcquaid

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  4. group
    funnel
    upsell
    retain

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  5. group
    !

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  6. users
    !

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  7. contributors

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  8. maintainers

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  9. funnel

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  10. leads
    prospects
    sales

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  11. users
    contributors
    maintainers

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  12. upsell
    ☝

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  16. github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/share/doc/homebrew/How-To-Open-a-Homebrew-Pull-Request-(and-get-it-merged).md

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  17. github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/share/doc/homebrew/New-Maintainer-Checklist.md

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  18. retain

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  19. users
    high quality
    no guilt merges
    no v2.0

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  20. contributors
    no bike shedding
    ☎ mailing list/IRC
    no feature issues

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  21. maintainers
    code of conduct
    private chat
    always growing

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  22. group
    funnel
    upsell
    retain

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  23. questions?

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