Open Source 101 2022
who it's for
open source maintainers, individual code contributors, non-code contributors (designers and docs), engineering managers and decision makers, students and internship applicants, privacy and compliance engineers
topics
GitHub Actions for contributions; pr compliance action; require-issue-before-merge policy; pull request templates with SQA; open source adoption survey findings; Kubernetes and container tooling interest; open source privacy engineering platforms; PII discovery and flow mapping; documentation pipelines with Read the Docs; design contributions for projects; project fundraising models and budgets; open source fellowship internship program
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| How to get your PR reviewed | Brian Douglas | 14m |
Advice centers on concrete, repeatable steps: use GitHub Actions to encode contribution rules, install the pr compliance action that guides PRs, require an… | ||
| The 2022 State of Open Source Software in Organizations | Javier Perez | 15m |
A global survey of 2,600+ respondents reports that 77% increased OSS use over the prior year and about 36–37% increased it significantly, with CentOS… | ||
| Open Source Developers Make Tech More Trustworthy | Kelly Huang | 08m |
Claims that open source makes software verifiable and accountable, and demonstrates that by releasing an open source privacy engineering platform (Ethyca) that… | ||
| Calling all non-code contributors! | Justin Dorfman | 10m |
Claim: open source projects urgently need non-code contributors and three concrete entry points. Examples show design work (new bash and zsh logos, gopher… | ||
| Open Source Standards: Toward a more diverse and equal internet | Paloma Andrade de Oliveira | 11m |
Argues that adopting concrete open standards — single issue tracker, clear README and roadmap, code of conduct, versioning and test regimens — raises… | ||
| An OS Internship Alternative: The MLH Fellowship, Year 3 | Jason Nappy | 07m |
Program description gives concrete outcomes: 35K applicants across three years, 1000s of Fellows who make thousands of contributions to partner projects, and a… | ||
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