Open Sourcery in The New World
summary
Presentation gives concrete tactics and outcomes: a cookies for code giveaway that generates a temporary spike in non‑Replicated PRs, architecture‑committee live reviews that route every new PR into a roadmap for Kata containers, heavy use of Zoom to restore morale, and adding the UserWay plugin to improve accessibility. Cites surprising demographics: GitHub 2017 (95% male, 3% female, 1% non‑binary) versus Bureau of Labor (≈23% female, ≈34% people of color). Stresses fixing docs, glossaries, auto‑responses and 24–48 hour reply targets.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Welcome
- 1:27Open source journey
- 3:12Exclusion in open source
- 5:57Pandemic impact on contributions
- 8:25Human connection
- 10:50Diversity challenges
- 13:55Why contributors hesitate
- 16:44Documentation for new contributors
- 19:34Engagement adjustments
- 21:40Fair contribution acknowledgment
- 22:42PR and issue responses
- 24:27Q&A
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