Open Web, Open Source, Open Communities
summary
Personal story about joining open source leads to concrete practices: use programs like Outreachy to onboard underrepresented contributors, label issues as good first bugs and adopt difficulty tiers like webpack’s D0–D3 so newcomers have a clear path, credit noncode work with All Contributors, enforce a code of conduct and call out toxic responses, and optimize for the newbie experience because mentoring pays off by turning helpers into maintainers and reducing long‑term workload.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:29Open Source and JavaScript
- 2:13Do you contribute to open source?
- 2:27Do you want to contribute to open source?
- 2:46Let's go back to how it started
- 4:08I can mentor this.
- 4:43Why do I care?
- 5:45You're NOT alone!
- 6:06Why should we care?
- 6:39For the "open" & "free" web.
- 7:02How can we do it?
- 7:22By Lowering Barriers of Entry
- 8:26Labelling beginner issues
- 9:21Having AND enforcing a Code of Conduct
- 10:03Not tolerating bad behaviour
- 10:51Treating people with empathy
- 11:28Why do this?
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