Lightning Talk: How Rejections Will Make you a Better Community Leader
Lightningat Community Leadership Conference @ Open Source Summit North America 2022 · 2022-06-21..06-24·
summary
Shows concrete steps: apply to programs even without perfect prep, and treat early rejections as data. Use simple tools — Notion kanban, sticky notes or a notepad — to track applications and record what was submitted and what responses arrived. Request specific feedback from program managers and run internal one‑on‑ones, then implement changes and reapply. Uses counts and outcomes (57 hackathons entered, 12 wins) to illustrate iterating from rejection into measurable community‑leadership improvements.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:43My Journey as a community leader
- 2:11Get Rejected Better than regret of not trying
- 2:46Track your rejections • Keep track of application status • Keeping a record of your responses helps • Evaluate what worked and what did not • Take inspiration, Do not copy
- 4:36Ask for feedback
- 7:28Implement the feedback
- 8:00What's the worse that can happen?
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