2025-11-8 –, 컨퍼런스홀(새빛관 101호)
언어: English
This lightning talk covers some lessons I've learned of contributing to and maintaining open-source projects for the past 20 years. Contributor onboarding is often quite painful, but some projects do a much better job than others. Listeners will hear practical improvements that every maintainer can adopt, and will help new projects launch with the right framework to build a vibrant community.
Onboarding contributors can be a difficult part of the open-source project lifecycle. Just like expanding your team at work, there is a lot that con go wrong if there is a mismatch in expectations.
This talk covers a mix of concrete and high level things that maintainers can do to improve their onboarding process, and things to avoid. It draws an my 20 years of contributing to open-source projects, onboarding dozens of contributors to projects I maintain, and mentoring for Google Summer of Code. And for new projects, I'll present some things to consider before starting that will improve your chance of success in building a vibrant community.
Ian has been contributing to open-source projects, making his first contribution to FreeBSD ports over 20 years ago. Since then, he has found himself in both a contributor and a maintainer role, both at work and on personal projects. He is one of the cofounders of Stadia Maps, a location API company built on open data and open source, which actively gives back to the community through its involvement in the MapLibre organization, sponsorship of FOSS4G, and publishing of new open-source libraries.