Setting expectations for open source participation
(If you would prefer to watch a 30 minute talk on this same content, you can
watch my Python US 2018 keynote [https://youtu.be/tzFWz5fiVKU?t=48m55s])
Who am I? [1]
To
open source
Becoming an OSS project maintainer is about trust
To gain commit rights on CPython, a pre-existing core developer nominates your
for commit rights to python-committers. That nominator lays out roughly why you
should be given commit rights, and then promises to
Don't just open the door, welcome people through it
During his PyCon US 2015 keynote, Guido stated that we "[wanted] at least two
femail core devs [https://youtu.be/G-uKNd5TSBw?t=13m40s]" by PyCon US 2016.
Guido, Raymond Hettinger, and
Why I took October off from OSS volunteering
On October 1, 2016, I stopped volunteering for open source projects -- including
Python -- for a month. While I still did open source work for Python as part of
my job, I
How I stay happy making open source software
Over the past month I have become aware of multiple people either stepping away
from open source or trying to figure out how not to burn out from it [1
[http://www.drmaciver.