Making an Awesome Open-Source Project - Speaker Deck

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Step 1: Write Code

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Step 2: Now I’m John Resig.

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Making an Awesome Open Source Project!

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github @xpaulbettsx

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Pourquoi?

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Sharing Code is Sharing Ideas

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Ideas that spread, win.

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Code should solve problems

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The code is the easiest part

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Think like a developer this should come naturally

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If you saw this would you use it?

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Even this: What does it do?!

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Landing Page What does it do Why is it cool Elevator Pitch Call to Action

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demo (?)

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Documentation You get it, how can your users?

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Blogging is Important

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Mailing Lists let Devs help Devs

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Don’t ﬁx user- submitted bugs

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Dev Documentation Nobody will ever read your documentation

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Developers Learn by Doing

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Make great Error Messages

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QuickStart!

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Make everything easy don’t make me think!

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Instructions are documentation of UX failure

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SassAndCoffee: As Easy as Possible

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Sum it all up, like that guy from Scrubs It’s not just about the code Make it easy for your users Developers don’t read anything Make everything as easy as possible

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Thanks!