Contributing to Open Source Doesn’t Require Changing the World

Slides + Notes: https://gist.github.com/orta/6ba0c674a0812a6220ca

Not every change has to be as big as CocoaPods. Sometimes smaller interactions can be just as important as the bigger ones. If OSS is transparent but not easily permeable, then how can that barrier be made easier to get through?

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1. Orta Therox
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2. Co-contributors
   4 Steve Klabnik
   4 Aiden Feldmen
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3. OSS
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5. MIT/BSD/GPL
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6. MIT/BSD/GPL
   yawn !
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7. Open Community
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8. Bazaar vs Cathedral
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9. Managing the Bazaar
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10. Transparent
    but not easily permeable !
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12. Writing a patch is the
    easiest part of open source.
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13. The truly hard stuff is all of the rest: bug trackers,
    mailing lists, documentation, and other management
    tasks.
    -- Steve Klabnik
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15. Maven
    Rubygems
    npm
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17. Entering the bubble
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18. 4 For non-technicals
    4 For technicals
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19. Non-Technical
    4 Managers
    4 Designers
    4 Students
    4 Product Managers
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21. !
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22. Abusing work power for OSS
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23. Remote Developers
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24. Ad-hoc project ownership
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25. Forks over mono-repos
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26. Culture of Code Review
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27. Code Owned by Owner
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28. Open Source by Default
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30. Example
    GIFs.app
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36. Without his contribution
    this app would
    not
    be on the Store
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37. All done via email
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38. Non-Technical
    4 Managers
    4 Designers
    4 Students
    4 Product Managers
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39. Srishti
    1st year in University
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40. Friends with OSS
    developers
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41. Helps out in IRC and Slack
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42. Non-Technical
    4 Managers
    4 Designers
    4 Students
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43. Emma Koszinowski
    &
    Karla Sandoval
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44. Rails Girls
    Summer of Code
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45. Got mentors
    Get paid
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46. Not all OSS is Code
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47. Appsterdam
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48. Successfully abusing GitHub
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49. 4 For non-technicals
    4 For technicals
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50. 4 Workshops
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53. Lowering Barriers
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54. !
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60. Buddy Systems
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61. Automate Away the
    Barrier
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65. Run community events
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66. Test Jam
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67. Bug Bash
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68. Contibute to Charities
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69. Project Manage
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71. But what if my code sucks?
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74. Seriously
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75. Seriously
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76. Ouch
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77. The day later
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78. I want to make it clear that you should
    definitely still open source your code.
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79. !
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