Open Source: Supporting, Contributing and Evangelising
summary
Companies are urged to publish how they use OSS and sign a Fast Pledge (about 30 orgs so far) and to contribute noncode work like blogs or redesigns; communities scale by defining channels, adding good first issues, offering priority support for newcomers and rewarding first PRs with swags or gift cards (one project grows from 30 to ~200 contributors, another from 500 to 40,000 devs); programs cited include GSoC, LFX and an Open Source Hack, and privacy and longevity arguments favor using open source tools.
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