Nurturing the Next Generation of Open Source Contributors
Talkat Open Source Summit Japan + AI_dev: Open Source GenAI & ML Summit + Automotive Linux Summit 2025 · 2025-12-08..12-10·
summary
CodeDay reports ~83,000 alumni and about 4–5,000 students who contributed to open source, opening thousands of pull requests with most merged; students add fixes to Linux, CPython, Kubernetes, Android and even ship code that runs on F-Prime in space. Major blockers are mindset, the software development process, and lack of codebase context; effective fixes are mentorship, a clear contributing.md, an architecture.md, reliable dev setup (WSL notes), CI with linting, and curated good first issues that boost employability to ~80%.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:25Why students and maintainers care
- 8:01Three barriers for students
- 19:28What maintainers can do
- 31:02Student contribution results
- 35:41Q&A
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