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

Kindness in Open Source

Sponsored · Ship Features Fearlessly Turn features on and off without deploys. Used by thousands of Ruby developers. →
Avatar for Parker Moore Parker Moore
March 03, 2013
Programming
2
180

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
120
Vote.Gov
Avatar for Parker Moore parkermoore
4
1.2k

Other Decks in Programming

See All in Programming
Reactive ❤️ Loom: A Forbidden Love Story
Avatar for Francesco Nigro franz1981
2
170
The free-lunch guide to idea circularity
Avatar for Holly Cummins hollycummins
0
360
Symfony + NelmioApiDocBundle を使った スキーマ駆動開発 / Schema Driven Development with NelmioApiDocBundle
Avatar for Shohei Okada okashoi
0
230
AI 開発合宿を通して得た学び
Avatar for ニフティ株式会社 niftycorp
PRO
0
170
Nuxt Server Components
Avatar for wattanx wattanx
0
130
Codexに役割を持たせる 他のAIエージェントと組み合わせる実務Tips
Avatar for o8n o8n
4
1.4k
CS教育のDX AIによる育成の効率化
Avatar for ニフティ株式会社 niftycorp
PRO
0
170
テレメトリーシグナルが導くパフォーマンス最適化 / Performance Optimization Driven by Telemetry Signals
Avatar for shiro seike seike460
PRO
2
170
Strategy for Finding a Problem for OSS: With Real Examples
Avatar for Chikahiro Tokoro kibitan
0
110
エンジニアの「手元の自動化」を加速するn8n 2026.02.27
Avatar for 西尾義英 symy2co
0
180
実践ハーネスエンジニアリング #MOSHTech
Avatar for Takuma Kajikawa kajitack
7
4.2k
Fundamentals of Software Engineering In the Age of AI
Avatar for Dan Vega therealdanvega
2
290

Featured

See All Featured
Code Reviewing Like a Champion
Avatar for maltzj maltzj
528
40k
The AI Search Optimization Roadmap by Aleyda Solis
Avatar for Aleyda Solis aleyda
1
5.5k
16th Malabo Montpellier Forum Presentation
Avatar for AKADEMIYA2063 akademiya2063
PRO
0
79
Information Architects: The Missing Link in Design Systems
Avatar for Michelle Chin soysaucechin
0
850
A better future with KSS
Avatar for Kyle Neath kneath
240
18k
Facilitating Awesome Meetings
Avatar for Lara Hogan lara
57
6.8k
BBQ
Avatar for Matthew Crist matthewcrist
89
10k
The Invisible Side of Design
Avatar for Vitaly Friedman smashingmag
302
51k
A Guide to Academic Writing Using Generative AI - A Workshop
Avatar for Kenji Saito ks91
PRO
0
250
The Myth of the Modular Monolith - Day 2 Keynote - Rails World 2024
Avatar for Eileen M. Uchitelle eileencodes
26
3.4k
Build your cross-platform service in a week with App Engine
Avatar for Jose L jlugia
234
18k
How to Align SEO within the Product Triangle To Get 
Buy-In & Support - #RIMC
Avatar for Aleyda Solis aleyda
1
1.5k

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!