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EVERYONE CAN DO OPEN SOURCE Bleeding Edge Web, August 2019 Who am I? Brian Moeskau VP of Engineering (& meetup organizer) github.com/bmoeskau Some open source projects I've worked on Ext JS Extensible Every developer should

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EVERYONE CAN DO OPEN SOURCE

Bleeding Edge Web, August 2019

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Who am I? Brian Moeskau VP of Engineering

(& meetup organizer) github.com/bmoeskau

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Some open source projects I've worked on

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Ext JS

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Extensible

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Every developer should contribute to open source

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Why?

Improve your skills Build a portfolio Get a job -- in OSS! Teach best practices Engage a community

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CASE STUDY: sinon-bluebird

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What it was

Sinon with a promise API A few simple functions About 80 lines of code Baked into our app code

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It seemed like a useful thing to share

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Todd was initially unconvinced

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Moving to open source

Cleaned up the code Added comments Added unit tests Added docs Moved to dedicated repo

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npm publish

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First Week: 122!

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Todd

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First 3 Months: 691

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Then we sort of forgot about it

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After 4 Years: 196K

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OK, where to begin?

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Start here:

https://opensource.guide

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Ready to try?

Contribute-To-This-Project up-for-grabs.net Github's good-first-issue good-first-issue CLI codetriage.com

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good-first-issue CLI

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LIVE DEMO:

Let's contribute!

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Ideas

Improve project docs Contribute a translation Add a demo Fix a bug -- typos count! Code review a PR Add a new feature

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"Open Source" doesn't have to mean code either

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Link Collections

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Dotfiles

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Come help us!

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