a community story of Electron

A presentation at JSConf.Asia Singapore 2016.

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1. a community story of Electron
   JSConf.Asia Singapore 2016
   

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2. introduction
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3. a brief history of Electron
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4. story started from node-webkit
   

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5. early days of node-webkit
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6. early days of node-webkit
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7. set a target
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8. after spending a few months
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9. built a simple community
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10. promotion
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11. got first user
    

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12. got first user
    

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13. kept early users
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14. the project became famous
    

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15. what to do next (usually)
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16. what to do next (usually)
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17. however for me...
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18. started the atom-shell project
    

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19. first year of Electron
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20. open sourced after one year
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21. open sourced after one year
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22. keep project well maintained
    

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23. community channels
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24. answer every issue
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25. respect pull requests
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26. respect pull requests
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27. make contribution easy
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28. companies started to use it
    

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29. company users are good
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30. they can be bad
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31. then there are too many users
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32. then there are too many users
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33. grew to a team
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34. want to join electron team?
    send email to groundwater@github.com
    

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35. thank you
    

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