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Otemuyiwa Prosper
September 22, 2017
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High Priest of Open Source ❖ Delegate, SourceRoad 2017, SF.
❖ WONTFIX CABAL, GitHub HQ ❖ Aggressive Open Sourcerer
Community Evangelist ❖ forLoop Africa ❖ Laravel Nigeria ❖ Angular
Nigeria
Google Developer Expert @unicodeveloper
“Open Source is the new sauce” - AceKyd
How to contribute to Open Source ❖ Find a project
to contribute to. ❖ Look at the issues. ❖ Document your solutions and progression. ❖ Be willing to accept feedback ❖ Find mentors & teach others ❖ Join a community
Starting an Open Source Project ❖ Set a Goal ❖
Contribute to Other Projects ❖ Choose a License ❖ Establish a code of conduct ❖ Name & brand your project
Spreading the word & Finding Users ❖ Social Media ❖
Speak about it at meetups & Conferences ❖ Build a Reputation ❖ Create First timer issues. Help people get started easily.
“GitHub is your new Resume”
“If your code is popular enough to attract outside contributions,
you will have created a force multiplier that helps you get more work done faster and cheaper” - Tom Preston-Werner
https://github.com/unicodeveloper/laravel-hackathon-starter
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“When it comes to hiring developers, I’ll take a GitHub
commit log over a resume any day” - John Resig
What they think Open Source Comm. need? ❖ Only Developers
❖ Just Developers ❖ More Developers ❖ A battalion Of Developers
What Open Source Comm. really need! ❖ Developers ❖ Technical
Writers ❖ Community Managers/Organizers ❖ Accountants ❖ Lawyers
The Open Source Community needs more hands!
How can you help? - The Open Source Comm. ❖
More Developers/Engineers to squash bugs ❖ More Organizers ❖ More Advocates ❖ More Technical Writers ❖ Money - patreon.com, OpenCollective.org ❖ Love
“Thank you.”