Contributors wanted: encouraging diversity in your OSS project
summary
Project with ~4,000 contributors shows concrete steps to grow and retain diverse contributors: split UI/CSS/HTML into separate modules so contributors avoid the legacy app, use Accept-Language and locale-in-URL routing plus a string-key switcher, run ~5 user-test sessions per feature, adopt a code of conduct and a contributor code of conduct, and use TransEffects for localization. Results: diversity trumps ability, over 20 locales live and ~100 in progress, 1,266 translators contributing real work and product improvements.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:04What is diversity
- 3:09Cognitive diversity benefits
- 4:33Attracting contributors
- 7:23User research contributions
- 9:10Localization contributions
- 11:59Learning from contributors
- 12:41Retaining contributors
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