Upgrade to Pro — share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …

Kindness in Open Source

Avatar for Parker Moore Parker Moore
March 03, 2013
Programming
2
160

Kindness in Open Source

Avatar for Parker Moore

Parker Moore

March 03, 2013
Tweet

More Decks by Parker Moore

See All by Parker Moore
Jekyll 3
Avatar for Parker Moore parkermoore
3
110
Vote.Gov
Avatar for Parker Moore parkermoore
4
1.2k

Other Decks in Programming

See All in Programming
Android 16KBページサイズ対応をはじめからていねいに
Avatar for mine2424 mine2424
0
650
AIのメモリー
Avatar for watany watany
11
950
What's new in AppKit on macOS 26
Avatar for 1024jp 1024jp
0
170
AI Agent 時代のソフトウェア開発を支える AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)
Avatar for Kenji Kono konokenj
6
970
Claude Code + Container Use と Cursor で作る ローカル並列開発環境のススメ / ccc local dev
Avatar for Yuichi Maekawa kaelaela
12
7.4k
The Niche of CDK Grant オブジェクトって何者？/the-niche-of-cdk-what-isgrant-object
Avatar for hassaku63 hassaku63
1
690
AIコーディングエージェント全社導入とセキュリティ対策
Avatar for hikae hikaruegashira
12
7.2k
GPUを計算資源として使おう！
Avatar for prime number primenumber
1
290
SwiftでMCPサーバーを作ろう！
Avatar for giginet giginet
PRO
2
190
Startups on Rails in Past, Present and Future–Irina Nazarova, RailsConf 2025
Avatar for Irina Nazarova irinanazarova
0
290
Streamlitで実現できるようになったこと、実現してくれたこと
Avatar for Ayumu Yamaguchi ayumu_yamaguchi
2
220
Understanding Kotlin Multiplatform
Avatar for HyunWoo Lee l2hyunwoo
0
110

Featured

See All Featured
Code Reviewing Like a Champion
Avatar for maltzj maltzj
524
40k
Measuring & Analyzing Core Web Vitals
Avatar for Philip Tellis bluesmoon
7
530
Visualization
Avatar for Eitan Lees eitanlees
146
16k
Why Our Code Smells
Avatar for Brandon Keepers bkeepers
PRO
337
57k
Agile that works and the tools we love
Avatar for Rasmus Luckow-Nielsen rasmusluckow
329
21k
Bootstrapping a Software Product
Avatar for Garrett Dimon garrettdimon
PRO
307
110k
Building an army of robots
Avatar for Kyle Neath kneath
306
45k
Rails Girls Zürich Keynote
Avatar for Gregor Martynus gr2m
95
14k
Designing Dashboards & Data Visualisations in Web Apps
Avatar for Des Traynor destraynor
231
53k
Code Review Best Practice
Avatar for Trisha Gee trishagee
69
19k
Reflections from 52 weeks, 52 projects
Avatar for Jefferson Lam jeffersonlam
351
21k
How to train your dragon (web standard)
Avatar for Monica Dinculescu notwaldorf
96
6.1k

Transcript

  1. KINDNESS IN OPEN SOURCE

  2. Parker Moore @parkr

  3. Cornell University

  4. None

  5. INTERN AT

  6. None
  7. None

  8. WHO MAINTAINS AN OPEN SOURCE PROJECT HERE?

  9. EVER HAD A TOTAL N00B POST AN ISSUE OR PULL

    REQUEST?

  10. and what’s our first reaction?

  11. None

  12. WE’RE ALL LIKE:

  13. SOME REALLY DOPEY IDEAS

  14. BUT THINK OF THEM LIKE

  15. deserve :heart: and compassion

  16. newbies are valuable

  17. dopey ideas sometimes turn into amazing features

  18. they need your constructive criticism to get better take advantage

    of your opportunity to teach

  19. in short order, these newbies will submit great pull requests

    that support and improve your project

  20. NBLFTPVSDPNNVOJUZ GBSCFUUFS

  21. MATZ IS NICE SO WE ARE NICE

  22. TAKE A MINUTE TO HELP THE N00BS HANGING AROUND YOUR

    PROJECTS THANKS!