Open it up
Community > Open Source
tableflip.io
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NodeConf, LXJS, and...
Rockbot!
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NodeBots Day
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nodebot-workshop
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Nodeschool
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LNUG
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Highlight good open source citizens and their projects
Help people become contributors
An aside...
Reasons to
open-source
Give and take
Enlightened
self-interest
Send that fix upstream
Transparency
All software paid for with public money should be open-source by default.
— Oli Evans (@olizilla) December 1, 2014How to contribute?
Hit a bug?
Raise
an issue.
Not so fast
Triage!
Look for existing bug reports.
Create a
minimally viable demo
WAT?
Finding a bug is the platonic ideal of getting into open source
Abraham Lincoln
You don't need to be hitting edge cases at scale to get involved
There are so many ways to contribute
- Organise a meetup
- Ask any & all questions...
- ...Improve the docs
- PRs welcome
Pull Requests
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Beginners Welcome!
beats
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A beginners welcome 24PR project
build a game by Christmas
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