You Don’t Need to Be a Hero to Contribute

Presented at PyCon Hong Kong 2025

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1. You Don’t Need to Be a Hero to Contribute Richard Fan
2. Who am I • Security Engineer • AWS Security Hero (Not working for AWS) • Hobbyist security researcher • Love travel, hiking • Have a cat
3. I’m zero His GitHub My GitHub Her GitHub
4. I can do it
5. My 1st story – a Python demo project AWS Nitro Enclaves • Introduced in 2020 • Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) inside EC2 AWS Nitro Enclaves
6. My 1st story – a Python demo project
7. My 1st story – a Python demo project
8. My 1st story – a Python demo project
9. Tip #1 Tip #1 A demo/util helps a lot of people Especially on languages like Python
10. My 2nd story
11. My 2nd story
12. My 2nd stories – Fixing documentations issues
13. My 2nd stories – Fixing documentations issues Documentarians are the unsung heroes
14. My 2nd stories – Fixing documentations issues If you know how to fix it, raise a PR! If you don’t, raise an issue (with reference!!!)
15. My 2nd stories – Fixing documentations issues
16. My 2nd stories – Fixing documentations issues Or just use AI
17. Tip #2 Tip #2 As a user You have the right to point out docs mistake
18. My 3rd story Retiring But we build more stuff here
19. My 3rd story
20. My 3rd story GitHub reusable workflow
21. My 3rd story
22. My 3rd story • sourcegraph.com • grep.app
23. My 3rd story
24. Open-source community is more fragile than you think
25. Open-source community is more fragile than you think Supply Chain Attack!!!
26. Open-source community is more fragile than you think
27. Open-source community is more fragile than you think
28. Open-source community is more fragile than you think
29. Tip #3 Tip #3 If you found an issue Other people probably made the same mistake
30. Start Before You’re Ready
31. How to find me richardfan1126@gmail.com richardfan1126 @richardfan1126