No, I Won't Contribute to Your Open Source Project
summary
Survey-driven claims: 107 responses across three tracks with 23 organizers, 52 contributors and 32 non‑contributors. Findings: poor onboarding and missing Step Zero docs block newcomers, many leave for real life or because tasks disappear, and 65% of departing contributors cite unwelcoming or abusive communities. Concrete fixes proposed: mentoring the mentors, measured community metrics, prebuilt dev environments and an Open Hatch–style onboarding pipeline; experiments and numbers back the diagnosis.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 8:13How can you improve?
- 9:34Do you ask why people leave!
- 16:02What have I learned?
- 20:07Why did you stop participating
- 40:11Step Zero
- 41:39References
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