One Way to Encourage the Open Source Community

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Claim: starring dependent gems increases visible appreciation of OSS. Demo tool under stuff scans Gemfile.lock during bundle install, looks up GitHub repos, uses a stored token to add stars automatically, and shows which indirect dependencies just gained stars. The proposal reports no large analytics but argues the surprising gap between download counts and star counts for widely used libraries and urges put a star on projects you depend on as a low friction action to boost maintainers.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:20Open Source Community
3. 2:16Favorite Projects
4. 3:27Understa
5. 5:29Conclusion

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