We Want YOU! Contributing to the Django Community
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- 1. We Want YOU! Contributing to the Django Community LA Django - 2014-10-28 Marcel Chastain (@MarcelChastain)
- 2. What we’ll cover • Why contribute • What’s in it for you • What the community needs • How to get started • Where to find people and projects • ??? • Profit.
- 3. …WHY?
- 4. Why Contribute? • Open Source NEEDS you • Participate in something that helps tons of people • Keep the community alive and well • Improve software quality
- 5. What’s in it for you? • Learn more about internals • Pick up best practices • Understand different approaches/styles of coding • Get to be a part of something BIG • Reputation/Karma/Inner-Awesomeness • Feel super smart when you help someone • Raise your profile as a developer (job offers, contracts, partnerships, book deals, your own sneaker, etc)
- 6. WHAT THE COMMUNITY NEEDS
- 7. Remote and In-Person • Online help through forums, chat, etc. • Also in-person help • teaching/tutoring kids in school • mentors for advocacy groups & nonprofits • @GirlsWhoCode • @BlackGirlsCode • @CodeNow • volunteers/contributions for events • Meetups(!) • Conferences • Hackathons
- 8. New People Need: • Answers to questions • Guidance on getting started • Basic understanding, recommendations • Someone to look at their code snippets • Reassurance when they’re overthinking or freaking out about something
- 9. Developers Need: • Better documentation! • Code examples! • Step-by-step guides to achieve a goal (tutorials, blog posts, videos) • A second set of eyes for their code snippets • Recommendations
- 10. Core / Library Devs need: • Bug reports • Feedback on performance, issues, sharp edges • Someone to triage, confirm & comment on new bug tickets/issues • Patches, bug fixes, pull requests • Unit Tests written • Help moving to Python 3 or recent versions of Django • Suggestions and feature ideas • Rabid fans + Twitter Followers • Love and Kudos!!
- 11. GETTING STARTED –HELP NEEDED
- 12. 1. Mailing Lists • django-users https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/django-users • django-developers https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/django-developers •
- 13. 2. IRC • #django on irc.freenode.net • many other library-specific channels on irc.freenode • #restframework • #haystack Great place to idle! Learn just by reading other people’s problems and the eventual solutions! Chime in with an answer, debate merits, trade war stories, etc.
- 14. 3. Help Sites • StackOverflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/django • Reddit http://reddit.com/r/django • Google Groups
- 15. 4. Your Own Blog • Tutorials • Guides • Explanation of Tricky Bits • Opinions/Rants • Libraries you’re excited about • Techniques • War Stories
- 16. 5. Other People’s Blogs • People often ask for help in the comments sections • Or, if it’s an article with terrible advice, you can link to a better one
- 17. GETTING STARTED –DOCS & BUGS
- 18. Django Core • “Contributing to Django” https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/internals/contributing / • Report bugs in the Ticket Tracker https://code.djangoproject.com/ • Solve “Easy Pickings” bugs https://code.djangoproject.com/query?status=!closed&easy= 1 • Look at and comment on “Unreviewed Tickets” https://code.djangoproject.com/query?status=!closed&stage= Unreviewed&order=priority
- 19. Other Libraries • Github issues page • Fork, solve a bug or contribute, then make a pull request
- 20. FINDING PEOPLE AND PROJECTS
- 21. Finding projects • Django Packages https://www.djangopackages.com • PyCoder’s Weekly Newsletter http://pycoders.com
- 22. Finding People • Meetup events • speakers • organizers • hosts • Conventions • organizers • Twitter/Social Media • follow other local devs!
- 23. What we’ll cover • Why contribute • What’s in it for you • What the community needs • How to get started • Where to find people and projects • ??? • Profit.
- 24. ??? • How about commitment, hmm?
- 25. PROFIT.
- 26. We Want YOU! Contributing to the Django Community LA Django - 2014-10-28 Marcel Chastain (@MarcelChastain)