FOSS like a Boss!
summary
Explains how real open source work looks: a documentation fix to Ruby gets forked, pushed and eventually merged after six months; government projects shift from a failed £2.3bn NHS procurement (vendors extracting £12bn) to reusable gov.uk templates reused across departments; GitHub treats opened issue equals contribution so saying thanks and triaging issues matters; maintainers are a scarce, unsustainable resource so ask before building big features, read CONTRIBUTING, avoid incessant pings, and consider donating money (example pledge: £176.80 / $250).
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:45Poetry
- 4:10Who uses FOSS
- 5:52GitHub
- 6:30Ryan Big
- 7:51Donald Trump
- 9:25Why open source
- 10:03Storytime
- 11:35Open Source
- 13:28Government
- 17:32Closing Issues
- 20:40Help with Open Issues
- 24:25Documentation
- 25:40Checklist
- 26:48Committing
- 28:27Contributing
- 30:11Hot Single Sharks
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