The Power of the Open Source Community

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! The Power of the Open Source Community Kat Fukui @katfukui Mike McQuaid @MikeMcQuaid

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! ⁉ What " Creating Improving

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! ⁉ What open source software?

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! GitHub today

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! 58m repositories % 21m developers GitHub

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! 28m public repositories 20% are considered open source software

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! nodejs/node 1,356 contributors 17,480 commits django/django 1,409 contributors 24,370 commits rails/rails 3,293 contributors 62,488 commits rust-lang/rust 1,783 contributors 64,186 commits

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! What makes a successful open source community?

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! What are struggles with the open source community?

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! " Creating inclusive open source software communities

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! Maintaining Add a Code of Conduct

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! Growing First time contributor badge ✨

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! Growing Community proﬁle

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! Moderating Temporary interaction limits

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! Improving open source software community interactions

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! ) Good user interactions Expectations from project resources Everyone helping how they can Prioritise the time of contributors/maintainers

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! Good contributor interactions Read and follow project guidelines Defer to maintainers Go outside comfort zone

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! Good maintainer interactions Self-care to avoid burnout Act as a force multiplier Consider how all changes affect 90% of users