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Contributing beyond Code: My 6 months review

Lightningat FOSDEM 2021 · on Sunday, 2021-02-07· at 15:00· L.lightningtalks· [career-development, open-source]

speaker

name:Ruth Ikegah

website:https://ruthikegah.xyz/

resources

video:https://video.fosdem.org/2021/L.lightningtalks/contributing_beyond_code.mp4

slides:https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/contributing_beyond_code/attachments/slides/4766/export/events/attachments/contributing_beyond_code/slides/4766/Contributing_Beyond_code.pdf

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summary

A personal account of six months of open-source involvement that goes beyond coding: submitting conference talks about including beginners in OSS, writing explanatory blog posts, using Twitter to promote open source, joining onboarding teams to improve newcomer processes, and offering one-on-one mentoring. The speaker will describe challenges, strategies and accomplishments, including being accepted into the GitHub Stars program.

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