In which I speak on the Node.js Community and how we've been working toward continuously building it to ensure sustainability over the long-term.

1. September 6, 2018
Building Foundations of the
Node.js Community
Tierney Cyren
@bitandbang

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Who am I?
• Developer Advocate at NodeSource
• Chairperson, Node.js Community Committee
• “Human Clickbait”
• “An emoji, personified”

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Node.js Awesome. Why?
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Node.js is everywhere
you look

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Node.js has an
amazing ecosystem

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Node.js is made of an
astonishing community

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Everywhere, Ecosystem, and Community
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Community
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Let’s Talk Community
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The Story

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The Story

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Before the fork, everybody was fighting to get
stuff in and fighting to make these changes
happen. After the fork, everyone was content just
getting their stuff done.
Mikeal Rogers @ NodeConf ONE-SHOT Oslo

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OPEN Open Source
“Individuals making significant and valuable contributions
are given commit-access to the project to contribute as they
see fit. This project is more like an open wiki than a standard
guarded open source project.”
Source: http://openopensource.org/

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Who can contribute to Node.js?

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My first actual interaction with anything under Node.js or io.js.

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NOPE - @fishrock123

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What came of that first interaction
with the io.js project?

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So What’s the Community up to Now?

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The Node.js
Community Committee
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What is the Node.js Community Committee?
• A top-level committee, sitting next to the TSC and Board
• Tasked with building out and enabling community-centric
projects
• Defining new outward-facing projects and efforts

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We enable The Community.

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We enable The Community.
Ecosystem
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What’s the Community Committee do?

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👉 Check it out: github.com/nodejs/i18n
🌏 Internationalization 🌍

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👉 Check it out: github.com/nodejs/user-feedback
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✨ Diversity, Inclusivity, and Outreach ✨
👉 Check it out: github.com/nodejs/outreach Ping me to get engaged and help out 😅
… and more?

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👉 Check it out: github.com/nodejs/website-redesign
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🤝 Partner Communities 🤝
👉 Check it out: github.com/nodejs/community-committee/pull/352

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🎟 Individual Membership 🎟

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🎟 Individual Membership 🎟

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🎟 Individual Membership 🎟

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What do all these examples have
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Interested in helping out?
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How to get started with the CommComm
• Go to nodejs/community-committee on GitHub 🔗
• Check out issues in the Community Committee or the
Initiative repos tagged with “Good First Issue” 👋
OR
• Reach out to me and I’ll connect you to the right places ✨

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How to get started with the Initiatives
• All Community Committee Initiatives have the “Good First
Issue” label.
• Contribute translations and help out with the i18n tooling.
• D&I initiatives need some love and attention!
• Facilitation for User Feedback is super helpful!
• Website Redesign is proceeding rapidly and could use 💅
OR
• Reach out to me and I’ll connect you to the right places 🙌

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The Node.js project isn’t just about
writing code or creating software.
Come help out!

43. Thank you.
Tierney Cyren
tierney@nodesource.com
@bitandbang