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

@cmaneu I won’t talk about Why you may want to opensource something? How you can become rich with opensource? How you can become famous with opensource? 

@cmaneu Boost , but what? Your users The maintainers The contributors 

@cmaneu Boost , but what? Your users The maintainers The contributors Understand the OSS Funnel aka.ms/boost-oss/funnel 

@cmaneu chris@Azure:~$ # Attract users to your project # Simplify contributions cat boost-my-oss-project.md 

@cmaneu chris@Azure:~$ # Attract users to your project # Simplify contributions cat boost-my-oss-project.md 

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@cmaneu aka.ms/boost-oss/readme 

@cmaneu Readme good practices Have a logo and a clear description of your project Show your project: Gif, Video, Screenshots Give a way to quickly start using your project 

@cmaneu Have a great documentation 

@cmaneu Use multiple communication channels Project updates New releases Thanks contributors Project announcement Big releases Getting started Tutorials Architecture/code challenges 

@cmaneu chris@Azure:~$ # Attract users to your project ## Create a great readme.md ## Spend some time creating a documentation ## Get a _getting started_ ## Use several communication channels # Simplify contributions cat boost-my-oss-project.md 

@cmaneu chris@Azure:~$ # Attract users to your project ## Create a great readme.md ## Spend some time creating a documentation ## Get a _getting started_ ## Use several communication channels # Simplify contributions cat boost-my-oss-project.md 

@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 aka.ms/boost-oss/readme 

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@cmaneu Create a contributing.md • Coding conventions • Styleguides • Reporting bug/features • Definition of done • Testing • Pull requests rules • How to ask questions 

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@cmaneu Have some 

@cmaneu Get a dev environment in seconds VS Code aka.ms/boost-oss/vscode-remote 

@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 aka.ms/boost-oss/pipelines aka.ms/boost-oss/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 aka.ms/boost-oss/dependabot 

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

@cmaneu chris@Azure:~$ # Attract users to your project # Simplify contributions ## Work on developer documentation ## Have simple tasks for new contributors ## Simplify dev environment setup with VS Code Remote Extensions ## Get automated builds & tests with Azure Pipelines ## Automate dependency updates with Dependabot cat boost-my-oss-project.md 

Thanks ! Christopher MANEU Azure Engineer & Advocate @ Microsoft R&D @cmaneu aka.ms/boost-oss/slides