Keynote: Collaborating on Open Source Software

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Personal account of contributing to Cucumber that starts in August 2017 and tracks concrete outcomes: first contribution August 2017, fixes include adding tests that reproduce and close old issues and added tests that closed old issues, an early mistake of merging prematurely is recovered when merged something that wasn’t ready and core maintainers fixed it, practical work spans Kotlin refactors, Git skills, triaging GitHub issues and a weekly new contributor ensemble streamed on Twitch for onboarding.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:38Collaborating on Open Source Software
3. 2:26Why Would You Contribute To Open Source Software
4. 2:46Why Do You Contribute To Open Source Software or Why Do People Contribute To Open Source Software
5. 10:12Refactor
6. 10:58Fixing Typos
7. 16:39Edit Documentation
8. 20:53Cucumber Expressions
9. 22:22Ways To Sponsor Open Source and Open Source Projects
10. 22:41Software Foundation Conservancy
11. 25:27Find a Project To Work On
12. 28:43Contributor License Agreement
13. 29:11Pick a Task
14. 29:46Clone the Project
15. 31:30First Contribution

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