Contributor-Centric Systems: Design lessons from open source...
summary
Asserts concrete lessons: a project called HospitalRun is built for low‑resource, offline use with records syncing after 300 km mobile clinics; front end choices like ember and rigorous test coverage drive contributor onboarding; a corporate open‑source site implemented with Gatsby and public edit buttons at opensource.newrelic.com shows architecture that invites contribution; six actionable principles and three next‑step questions guide what to build, what to test, and which human interactions actually scale.
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:57Joels background
- 2:45Agenda
- 3:50Why is this worth 40 minutes
- 5:48Background
- 6:50Learning Management
- 8:41Career International
- 11:40Hospital Run
- 15:18Open Source
- 18:25Common Ground
- 21:10Definition
- 23:42Principles
- 26:37Communication
- 27:59Creating Norms
- 29:21Contributor Engagement
- 30:29Personal Experiences
- 32:12Relationships are Primary Incentives
- 34:04Questions
- 36:27New Relic Users Slack
- 37:04Open Question
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