Keynote: Cognitive Apprenticeship - Experience in Open Source
summary
Shows that the Event Horizon Telescope relied on more than 21,000 direct and dependency contributors and a GitHub sample averages 74,403 community contributors, argues for concrete onboarding changes: GitHub Sponsors (launched last year), ML GitHub apps that auto-triage issues, CI automation for PR quality, and experiential issue labels like associate engineer / SE1 / principal. Maps a newbie’s path from triaging and community work to weekly coding contributor to maintainer and gives practical steps that have already been tried.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 3:01Picture of a Black Hole
- 7:10Github Sponsors Program
- 21:08Free Code Camp Community
- 25:13Learning Theory
- 29:53How Do We Better Support Contributors at the Higher End of the Ladder To Take On Leadership Roles
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