Keynote: "Open" as in "Welcoming": Facilitating Contributions
summary
Projects become measurably more productive by lowering friction: add a contributing file, prefill GitHub issue and PR templates, and tag bite-sized tasks easy/medium/hard tags so newcomers can start without context. Concrete results: clippy grows from 24 to 59 lints in one month and reaches almost 200 lints and ~100 contributors within months; mentoring and accepting imperfect PRs turns one-off fixes into long‑term maintainers and moves large efforts like Servo and Stylo forward.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:25Open Source
- 2:16Why bother
- 13:54Documentation
- 17:46Processes
- 22:23Common Mistakes
- 25:05Pitch a Dream
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