Succeeding with Open Source

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Open sourcing a company CMS turns into concrete wins: Refinery CMS becomes the dominant Ruby CMS, attracts clients, and brings external bug fixes and extensions; using GitHub plus a review workflow, maintainers squash or rebase patches, require tests, and keep changes tiny to get merges; contributors earn work and sometimes fund travel; the project growth raises coding skill, reputation, and salary while forcing processes that prevent burnout and scale maintenance.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:40Why open source
3. 4:00Benefits
4. 6:00Learnings
5. 8:55Barriers

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