Boost your opensource project Christopher MANEU Azure Engineer & Advocate @ Microsoft R&D @cmaneu (with a little help from @juliendubois) 

@cmaneu The Open Source Journey Open Grow Automate 

@cmaneu The Open Source Journey Open Grow Automate 

@cmaneu What’s stopping contributions ? 

@cmaneu Documentation 101 ❑ LICENSE.md ❑ README.md ❑ CONTRIBUTING.md ❑ CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md ❑ Issue Templates ❑ Pull request templates https://github.com/todogroup/repolinter 

@cmaneu Contributing.md 

@cmaneu Communicate outside GitHub 

@cmaneu The Open Source Journey Open Grow Automate 

@cmaneu Automate your builds & releases Azure Pipelines Free unlimited build minutes for public projects Up to 10 free parallel jobs across Windows, Linux and macOS https://aka.ms/rebuild19/pipelines https://aka.ms/rebuild19/learn-pipelines 

@cmaneu Automate your dependency updates Dependabot Check for updates Opens pull requests with fixes. Works with npm, pip, composer, docker images, nuget, … Free https://aka.ms/rebuild19/dependabot 

@cmaneu Automate pull request lifecycle Slack reminders Intelligent assignment Analytics Free Pull Panda 

@cmaneu Automate issue triage 

@cmaneu Automate everything https://probot.github.io/ Delete Stale issues Draft Releases Welcome new users Weekly digests … 

@cmaneu Understand the opensource funnel https://mikemcquaid.com/2018/08/14/the-open-source-contributor-funnel-why-people-dont-contribute-to-your-open-source-project/ 

@cmaneu In short ❑ Create a Twitter account ❑ Craft a great readme with clear value proposition ❑ Go where your community is ❑ Encourage to contribute in ALL areas (documentation, design, events, …) ❑ Get the right documentation ❑ Automate build & test to help merge pull requests quicker ❑ Automate dependency updates & security checks ❑ Automate communication & release management ❑ Create a project appealing for the future users 

Thanks ! Christopher MANEU Azure Engineer & Advocate @ Microsoft R&D @cmaneu