Lightning talk from Devon Lindsey

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Claim: people who don't contribute fall into three camps—can't, don't, and won't—and exclusionary language drives many away. Concrete fixes include enforcing zero-tolerance on hate speech in issues and IRC, cloning and running repos across operating systems and builders to file informed bug reports, and focusing on non-code contributions like specific documentation fixes, tutorial videos, and local meetups that actually increase adoption and contributions.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 3:14build an open-source community
3. 4:20start a meet-up
4. 4:50sing the praises of the software

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