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Otemuyiwa Prosper
March 29, 2022
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The Golden Ticket: Becoming a Superstar & Impactful Open Source Contributor
Otemuyiwa Prosper
March 29, 2022
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Prosper Otemuyiwa Developer Advocate, Sourcegraph
Meet Prosper Otemuyiwa - OSS Contributor - Co-founder, forloop Africa
- Co-founder, Eden Life - Angel Investor in 20+ startups @unicodeveloper
THE GOLDEN TICKET: Becoming a Superstar & Impactful OSS Contributor
Open Source Festival 2022 Building, shipping & scaling great software
is hard.
Open Source Festival 2022 Building great & impactful software in
the public & for free is incredibly hard.
Open Source Festival 2022 We need more impactful open source
contributors today. Why?
Open Source Festival 2022 We’re at a breaking point where
the sustainability of open source is at stake.
Open Source Festival 2022 Software at large globally is heavily
dependent on open source.
Open Source Festival 2022 Open Source maintainers are burned out
& need all the help they can get.
So - - - - - - - - -
-
“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
What? 🤔 - - - - - - - -
- -
Becoming a Superstar & Impactful OSS Contributor
How? - - - - - - - - -
-
4 Ways You Can Leverage…
- Finding & fixing vulnerabilities - Boost code health -
Be faster at code onboarding - Code Reuse
Start with making impact, being a superstar will follow
Code Reuse
- Contribute to libraries… - Contribute to SDKs… - Contribute
to Components…
- Contribute to the Laravel community - Built the Laravel
Cloudinary SDK - Built the Laravel Paystack lib.
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Look for APIs that deserve their own libraries / SDKs
& make or even better contribute to them.
Finding & Fixing Security Vulnerabilities
E.g log4j, Wordpress HeartBleed, Laravel Ignition etc
Boost Code Health
- 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.
Faster Developer Onboarding…
- 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.
“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
Mind-blowing opportunities exist for impactful OSS Contributors. …I’ll mention a
few.
Interested in Open Source Contributions & Want to learn more?
https://srcgr.ph/osca2 2-community-space
Acknowledgement! - Vanesa Ortiz (for helping me with ideas &
proofreading this talk)
Thank you! Become an Impactful Contributor today! Twitter & GitHub:
@unicodeveloper