The Golden Ticket: Becoming a Superstar & Impactful Open Source Contributor

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2. Prosper Otemuyiwa
   Developer Advocate, Sourcegraph
   

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3. Meet Prosper Otemuyiwa
   - OSS Contributor
   - Co-founder, forloop Africa
   - Co-founder, Eden Life
   - Angel Investor in 20+ startups
   @unicodeveloper
   

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4. THE GOLDEN TICKET:
   Becoming a Superstar &
   Impactful OSS Contributor
   

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5. Open Source
   Festival 2022
   Building, shipping & scaling
   great software is hard.
   

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6. Open Source
   Festival 2022
   Building great & impactful
   software in the public &
   for free is incredibly hard.
   

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7. Open Source
   Festival 2022
   We need more impactful
   open source contributors
   today. Why?
   

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8. Open Source
   Festival 2022
   We’re at a breaking point
   where the sustainability of
   open source is at stake.
   

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9. Open Source
   Festival 2022
   Software at large globally is
   heavily dependent on open
   source.
   

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10. Open Source
    Festival 2022
    Open Source maintainers
    are burned out & need all
    the help they can get.
    

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11. So - - - - - - - - - -
    

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12. “What if you were handed a
    golden ticket that could
    magically start your tech life
    afresh? What will you do? What
    actions will you take?”
    - Prosper Otemuyiwa
    

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13. What? 🤔 - - - - - - - - - -
    

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14. Becoming a Superstar &
    Impactful OSS Contributor
    

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15. How? - - - - - - - - - -
    

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16. 4 Ways You Can
    Leverage…
    

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17. - Finding & fixing vulnerabilities
    - Boost code health
    - Be faster at code onboarding
    - Code Reuse
    

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18. Start with making impact,
    being a superstar will
    follow
    

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19. Code Reuse
    

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20. - Contribute to libraries…
    - Contribute to SDKs…
    - Contribute to Components…
    

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21. - Contribute to the Laravel
    community
    - Built the Laravel Cloudinary SDK
    - Built the Laravel Paystack lib.
    

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24. Look for APIs that deserve their
    own libraries / SDKs & make or
    even better contribute to them.
    

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25. Finding & Fixing
    Security Vulnerabilities
    

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26. E.g log4j, Wordpress
    HeartBleed, Laravel Ignition
    etc
    

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27. Boost Code Health
    

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28. - Integrate tools that keeps
    bundle size in check, e.g bundle
    size, IDE extensions. Etc
    - Setting up linters
    - Setting up tools that facilitate
    great code standards.
    

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29. Faster Developer
    Onboarding…
    

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30. - Set up documentation for better
    onboarding to OSS projects.
    - Set up demos to help new
    contributors grok the projects
    faster.
    - Make finding code easier on
    platforms & projects.
    

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31. “You don’t have to know
    everything, but you should
    learn how and where to find
    the things you need and want
    to know”
    - Albert Einstein
    

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32. Mind-blowing opportunities exist
    for impactful OSS Contributors.
    …I’ll mention a few.
    

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33. Interested in Open Source
    Contributions & Want to learn more?
    https://srcgr.ph/osca2
    2-community-space
    

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34. Acknowledgement!
    - Vanesa Ortiz (for
    helping me with ideas &
    proofreading this talk)
    

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35. Thank
    you!
    Become an Impactful Contributor today!
    Twitter & GitHub:
    @unicodeveloper
    

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