Your First
Open Source Project
Contributing To Existing Projects
Why?!
Fame?
Fortune?
Scratch An Itch!
Giving Back
Experience
Community
@petejohanson i am currently evaluating hy-res. love it so far. thanks and keep on the good work. expect casual pull requests. :)
— Dennis Wilson (@snnd) August 5, 2015What?!
Scratch An Itch!
More Than You Can Chew?
Too Esoteric?
Plugin/Extension
Where?!
GitHub
De Facto OSS Repository
try.github.io
Issues
- Collaboration of One (To Start)
- Low Hanging Fruit » help wanted
Echo Chamber (At First)
How?!
Samples
- Living Documentation
- Show Best Practices
Docs
- Too early, and they bit rot or get out of sync
- Tutorial/blog posts provide narrative
- Make API documentation part of your workflow
Tests
- Improve Quality
- Inspire Confidence In Potential Contributors
Continuous Integration
Badges!
Who?!
Timing
Leverage Existing Communities
- Mainling Lists/Google Groups
- Social Media
- Forums