Make the most of Open Source
summary
Chronicles a path from Ubuntu 5.10 user to active contributor with concrete wins: a first Django core pull request merged fixing UA handling in Postgres, a produced and merged Django docs search built with Postgres full‑text and Django now powering the official site, Italian translations merged for Django docs, mentoring at Django Girls workshops, blog posts that hit Hacker News front page for hours, and repeated PRs and sprints that grow skills and trust in the community.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 2:11Choose your community
- 4:45Attend a community conference
- 6:13Deep dive into Open Source
- 9:50Join an Open Source sprint
- 13:25Be a mentor
- 16:42Organize a sprint
- 18:15Improve your Open Source website
- 22:52Answer questions
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