You Belong Here: How to Make Open Source More Open

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Gatsby makes concrete changes: a code of conduct, open pair programming hours, and accessibility work plus docs treated as a product. Tools built include a friendlier Gatsby bot to triage and warn before auto-closing issues and a Shopify swag flow that gives contributors free shirts. Trust policy grants merge-ish access on first merged PR. The result is measurable: ~500 PRs/issues per month, ~1,800 contributors added and a thousand-plus maintainers network, and noticeably higher contributor retention.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:56OPEN SOURCE IS GREAT FOR
3. 6:01LEARNING GIT IS CHALLENGING
4. 6:40GITHUB CAN BE A LITTLE CONFUSING
5. 16:52CODE OF CONDUCT
6. 17:13COMMITMENT TO
7. 17:43EXTENSIVE DOCS
8. 21:03IMPLICIT TRUST
9. 23:30ACTIVE MENTORSHIP

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