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Greg McVerry

Onboard Through Blogging: Open Source Training

As an open source community your front door must invite potential contributors to walk right in. Yet many spaces fill their most forward looking properties full of jargon and or well established practices not easily identifiable to outsiders. Might as well put a Keep Out sign on your front door. We need to find new ways to invite people in. This often includ

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Designers: Blog About Your Open Source Contributions

First Deviantart, then Tumblr, and now Dribble, as Instagram quickly eats them all. Designers have always wanted to get their creations on to the world yet fall into a trap of relying on silos. They migrate from this whim to that hoping to get employer or client eyeballs on their work. You do not know when a platform will sell or if your entire design career

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Challenges in Open Source Blogging Communities

As open source communities we need to keep each other energized and engaged.Many people contribute on volunteer time. Squeezing in opportunities to code around children and career. Committment takes love and energy. We allowed a narrative of the loner coder pushing commits from a dark basement to define us for far too long. Let us redefine what open source c

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Starting the day a little late as I broke my rules and spent some time on networks doing more than necessary 1:1 correspondence. Though I feel I made

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Starting the day a little late as I broke my rules and spent some time on networks doing more than necessary 1:1 correspondence. Though I feel I made up for it releasing the Open Source Bl;ogging collections of books last night as I am going to use that content in our book. 🍅⏲ activated

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