open source software is software with source code that anyone can inspect, modify, and enhance https://opensource.com/resources/what-open-source

1. Helping Yourself with
Open Source Software
! 📣 🛠
@MikeMcQuaid

2. Mike McQuaid
Maintainer (2009-17)
twitter.com/MikeMcQuaid

3. !
Mike McQuaid
Senior Engineer (2013-17)
github.com/MikeMcQuaid

4. what is
open source?

5. open source software is
software with source code
that anyone can inspect,
modify, and enhance
https://opensource.com/resources/what-open-source

6. why use
open source?

7. open source is
free to use

8. open source is
widely used

9. open source is
(often) documented

10. open source is
best for agile and

11. open source is
best for agile and
best for entrepreneurs

12. what is
GitHub?

13. $ 21m developers
GitHub
🌎 58m repositories

14. 🔁 20% are considered
open source software
📢 28m public repositories

15. nodejs/node
1,356 contributors
17,480 commits
rails/rails
3,293 contributors
62,488 commits
rust-lang/rust
1,783 contributors
64,186 commits
django/django
1,409 contributors
24,370 commits

16. how can I get
started in
open source?

17. 📚 https://
opensource.gui
de
📚 https://opensource.guide

18. scratch an itch

19. what groups of
people are in
open source?

20. users
!

21. contributors
📣

22. maintainers
🛠

23. no-one ever became
a contributor
without being a
user first

24. no-one ever became
a maintainer
without being a
contributor first

25. no-one excels as
a maintainer
without remaining
an active user

26. users
contributors
maintainers

27. many contributors
were talked into it

28. most maintainers
were talked into it

32. docs.brew.sh/How-To-Open-a-Homebrew-Pull-Request.html

33. docs.brew.sh/New-Maintainer-Checklist.html

34. how can you keep
users/contributors/
maintainers happy?

35. users
💰 high quality
😰 no guilt merges
🏗 no v2.0

36. contributors
🚳 no bike shedding
☎ open discussions
🔐 no feature issues

37. maintainers
💝 code of conduct
🔏 private chat
🌳 always growing

38. questions?