DevClub Tallinn: How to Make Your OSS Project Successful

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How To Make   Your OSS Project Successful (without writing it in JavaScript) @bsideup Sergei Egorov, Pivotal

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About me • Staﬀ Engineer at Pivotal’s Spring R&D, working on Project Reactor ⚛ • Berlin Spring User Group co-organizer • Testcontainers co-maintainer • Apache member @bsideup

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a.k.a.

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Why doing OSS?

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To build a better world?

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@bsideup

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@bsideup

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Pleeeeease… @bsideup

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Money making? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cartoon_Guy_Mining_Lots_Of_Money_Online.svg @bsideup

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@bsideup

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@bsideup

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The point of OSS You trying to earn $ @bsideup

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http://insight-rec.com/with-insight-sharing-is-caring/ @bsideup

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Just imagine the world… @bsideup

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Just imagine the world… @bsideup

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Without OSS.

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Back to “building a better world”?

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Why *you* should do OSS? @bsideup

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“I noticed your GitHub proﬁle, <…>” “Oh, you maintain X? We love the project!” “I know you!” “Can you do a workshop?” @bsideup

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@bsideup

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SHUT UP AND TAKE MY… COMMITS! @bsideup

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Well… likely…

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@bsideup

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OSS is like a zombie apocalypse Who you expect to be Who you will actually be @bsideup

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GitHub is like a zombie apocalypse too Your Java library JavaScript projects @bsideup

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3 types of popular OSS projects @bsideup

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3 types of popular OSS projects • JavaScript projects (NodeJS, Express, TypeScript, React, Angular, …) @bsideup

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3 types of popular OSS projects • JavaScript projects (NodeJS, Express, TypeScript, React, Angular, …) • Projects that help running these JS projects (Kubernetes, Docker, …) @bsideup

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3 types of popular OSS projects • JavaScript projects (NodeJS, Express, TypeScript, React, Angular, …) • Projects that help running these JS projects (Kubernetes, Docker, …) • Those who remind you why JS is bad :D (Go projects, Spring, …) @bsideup

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but…

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if you managed to   create something great…

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Give it a good name >_< @bsideup

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Why name is important

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Watch your users!

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Don’t be creeppy! @bsideup

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Watching via GitHub

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https://github.com/search?q=testcontainers&s=indexed&type=Code @bsideup

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https://github.com/search?q=testcontainers&s=created&type=Issues @bsideup

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Know your issues @bsideup

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Join forces! @bsideup

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Join forces! @bsideup

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Collaborate @bsideup

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Grow the team @bsideup

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Testcontainers’ co-maintainer now ;) Grow the team @bsideup

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Help others spread the word @bsideup

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Learn new use cases @bsideup

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Inspire yourself & team! @bsideup

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@bsideup

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@bsideup

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LOL @bsideup

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Use GitHub Insights!

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@bsideup Know your forks

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@bsideup Know your forks

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@bsideup

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@bsideup

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@bsideup

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Watching via Twitter

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https://twitter.com/search?q=jabel%20java&f=live @bsideup

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Use smart search queries @bsideup

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Use smart search queries @bsideup

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Save queries @bsideup

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Save queries @bsideup

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Save queries @bsideup

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Save queries @bsideup

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Single-word unique names FTW! @bsideup

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Although sometimes they’re not that unique @bsideup

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Although sometimes they’re not that unique @bsideup

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Does it all work?

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You tell me :) @bsideup https://star-history.t9t.io/#testcontainers/testcontainers-java

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You tell me :) @bsideup We started promoting the project https://star-history.t9t.io/#testcontainers/testcontainers-java