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Some best practices for encouraging a healthy, sustainable open source environment, whether you're a casual user, contributor or maintaining your own project. From a Devmonth talk in Toronto, April 15 2016.
ADDITIONAL READING
All the content in here comes from watching and learning from others. These links are great additional reading on this topic, and I recommend following all of these authors' work.
[1] http://writing.jan.io/2015/11/20/sustainable-open-source.html
[2] https://medium.com/the-javascript-collection/healthy-open-source-967fa8be7951
[3] https://medium.com/code-zen/how-to-maintain-a-successful-open-source-project-aaa2a5437d3a#.6t77ivt8w
[4] http://docs.writethedocs.org/writing/beginners-guide-to-docs/
[5] http://www.kennethreitz.org/essays/be-cordial-or-be-on-your-way (thanks @the_compiler for the heads up!)
Josh Matthews (@lastontheboat) also mentioned OpenHatch and Issuehub.io as great resources for contributing to open source. Thanks Josh!
Thanks to André Arko for sharing the story of RubyGems.org with me. If you're a Ruby developer or company, Ruby Together (http://rubytogether.org) is a great community model for supporting Ruby infrastructure.
FOOTNOTES
Slides 4 and 5: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5139583
Slide 12: https://twitter.com/jedwatson/status/679878484634644482
Slide 14: https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter/issues/651
Slide 15: https://m.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/2u8tqp/psa_repl_by_default_opens_port_the_world_no/
Slide 18: https://medium.com/the-javascript-collection/healthy-open-source-967fa8be7951
Slide 20: https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt/issues/1403
Slide 24: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/index.html
Slide 25: https://github.com/bower/bower/pull/2071
Slide 26: https://github.com/fabric/fabric/issues/1409
Slide 27: https://twitter.com/mperham/status/717092048902303744
Slide 34: Quote from Dan Katz http://www.scientific-computing.com/news/news_story.php?news_id=2759
Slide 35: https://github.com/plataformatec/simple_form
Slide 36: hood.ie/contribute
Slide 37: https://twitter.com/mikeal/status/713393409474465792/photo/1
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