Harnessing the good intentions of others for your oss project

Harnessing the Good Intentions of Others for your OSS Project @LynnLangit @LlewellynFalco

- OR – How we got volunteers to becomfortable making small, significant contributions with us immediately @LynnLangit @LlewellynFalco

Meet the Volunteers

Approval Tests Open Source Project -- Java -- PHP -- Ruby -- .Net

CoursewareCustom LibrariesTraining MaterialsSmall BasicC#JavaT-SQL

Cindy Gallop“The single biggestpool of untappednatural resource in theworld is human goodintentions that nevertranslate into action”

What to do with a new volunteer? Hedge • You do something then come back to Invest me • I’ll train you

What to do with a new volunteer? Do one valuable Hedge thing Invest together NOW

Hearing from our volunteers

Pairing with PeikApproval International Tests Perspective

Pairing - how do you get there? Pairing

How to listenTwitterStackOverflowBlog/YouTube commentsDon’t be defensive Existing Where it Architecture breaksStart Small Need to respond fast

Barriers to Entry - OSS < ½ hour 10 minutes – 1 hour 3 – 6 hours ½ hours 1-2 hours 1-2 hoursGetting Started Fixing Submit Patch Understand Patch Acceptance

Barriers to Entry - OSS < ½ hour 10 minutes – 1 hour 3 – 6 hours ½ hours 1-2 hours 2 hours 1-2 hoursGetting Started Fixing Submit Patch Understand Patch Acceptance

Time well spent - OSS < ½ hour 1 ½ Hours 10 minutes – 1 hour ½ hours 1-2 hours 2 hours 2 hours 1-2 hoursGetting Started Fixing Submit Patch Understand Patch Acceptance

Pair Programming

Tools for Remote PairingSkypeGoogle HangoutsJoin.meMikogoAWS EC2 remote desktop shadowVNC

Motivations Software VolunteerProduct doesn’t do what you Desire to do goodwant Plan on around 2 hours of effort

Undervisning Med Lena(Teaching with Lena) Teaching Kids Danish Programming

Go Teach Will Train you to Teach Pair TeachProctor Easier Starts: Lowering the Bar

How to Ask – Short and SweetTwitter TKP Korean

How to Ask – Consistent Message Close every presentation with the same slide Say the project name and website URL Include one action step ‘Teach one kid to program with the first recipe’ ‘Ask a question on Twitter, I will respond promptly’

TeachingKidsProgramming.orgDo a Recipe  Teach a Kid (Ages 10 ++)SmallBasic or Java  Free Courseware (recipes)

Harness Their Passion Road Trip! Fun Lego TKP LogisticsRead all about it at bit.ly/GeekRoadTrip Teaching Coding

Budgets 4 hours 1-2 hours 1 2 hours 2 hours ½ HoursGetting Started Fixing Submit Patch Understand Patch Acceptance

Who’s in the audienceWhat is your Project?What is your name?

Because we have invested in the present,we have left the door open for the future…

“The rest is history”TKP in South Africa

Harnessing the good intentions of others for your oss project

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