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Recruiting Open Source Contributors VP Community, Sensu Inc. Matt Broberg @mbbroberg Monitorama 2018 a lesson from Benjamin Franklin

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A Favor Please & Thank You @mbbroberg

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@mbbroberg

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Patterns @mbbroberg

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@mbbroberg https://www.designhacks.co/products/cognitive-bias-codex-poster https://www.goodreads.com/book/s how/11468377-thinking-fast-and-sl ow

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Ask* @mbbroberg

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@mbbroberg Responsible for the awareness, engagement and health of the Sensu Community. Matt Broberg VP Community, Sensu Inc 200+ Plugins On GitHub 10+ Maintainers Volunteering to make monitoring better Open Framework To connect all your monitoring pieces

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@mbbroberg

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Asking for Help On GitHub ● License ● README.md ● CONTRIBUTING.md ● Pull Request Reviews ● Issues ● Labels ● Releases ● Milestones ● CHANGELOG.md ● Templates (.github/) ● Permissions (Teams & .owners) ● Saved Replies Beyond GitHub ● Acronyms (LGTM) ● Continuous Integration (Travis) ● Chat (Slack/IRC/Gitter) ● Recognition (All Contributors) ● Social Media (Twitter, etc) ● Sharing (Blog, Podcast, Talk) Psychological ● Just ask (Ben Franklin Effect) ● Make it easy (Sunk cost) ● Tell a good story (survivor bias)

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@mbbroberg

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Basics @mbbroberg

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Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer! License Basics Choose how open you are for contribution (and ownership). Permissive MIT Protective Apache 2.0 @mbbroberg

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Pull Request Reviews Basics Do you accept PRs? Good default: ● Be responsive ● Have tests @mbbroberg

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Basics @mbbroberg https://bluedynamics.com/blog/joha nnes/watch-all-your-repos

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Advanced @mbbroberg

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Psychology How are you helping people help you? Good default: ● Accept contribution liberally ● Encourage repeat contribution @mbbroberg Advanced

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@mbbroberg Advanced

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Advanced @mbbroberg https://github.com/blog/2135-saved-replies

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Decision Tree (Simplified) Should I share? Yes @mbbroberg

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Decision Tree (Simplified) Should I share? Yes @mbbroberg

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Decision Tree (Expanded) Could I share? Yes Do I have to? No @mbbroberg

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Your Reason Avoid other people’s @mbbroberg

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Asking for Help On GitHub ● License ● README.md ● CONTRIBUTING.md ● Pull Request Reviews ● Issues ● Labels ● Releases ● Milestones ● CHANGELOG.md ● Templates (.github/) ● Permissions (Teams & .owners) ● Saved Replies Beyond GitHub ● Acronyms (LGTM) ● Continuous Integration (Travis) ● Chat (Slack/IRC/Gitter) ● Recognition (All Contributors) ● Social Media (Twitter, etc) ● Sharing (Blog, Podcast, Talk) Psychological ● Just ask (Ben Franklin Effect) ● Make it easy (Sunk cost) ● Tell a good story (survivor bias)

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Start Simple The basics are enough 99% of the time. @mbbroberg

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Ask @mbbroberg Don’t go it alone

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Learn Brains @mbbroberg They’re more important than algorithms

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Thanks! VP Community, Sensu Inc. Matt Broberg @mbbroberg Open Source 101 Maintainer Bits ● Learn GitHub (bitly.com/git-it) ● Readmes (awesome-readme) ● Advice for maintainers (thread) ● GitHub Maintainers program ● All Contributors project ● Sane GitHub Labels project Psychological Bits ● Ben Franklin Effect ● Buy the cognitive bias codex