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Contribute to opensource: the right way 3nd edition

Open Source is a trending topic today but how can you learn all or some of the skills required to create or contribute to a project opened to the world? This book is my experience in the last 12 years, what I learn and what are the best practice from someone in the field.

Daniele Scasciafratte

Open Source is a trending topic today but how you can learned all or some of the skills required to create or contribute to a project opened to the world?

This book is my experience in the last 12 years, what I learn and what are the best practice from someone in the field.

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This book is my experience in the last 12 years, what I learn and what are the best practice from someone in the field.

The book is open source as well, you can pay (I will choose where send the money as they go in to different Open source projects) or get free.

Book source available at https://github.com/Mte90/Contribute-to-opensource-the-right-way

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Daniele Scasciafratte

Daniele Scasciafratte, an Italian skilled developer with experiences on community building, development and localization on open source projects.

Contents

Table of Contents

How to read this book

  1. What you will find
  2. What are the hints of this book
  3. License
  4. Tools used
  5. Legend
  6. Contacts
  7. Donation
  8. My (open source) story
  9. Let’s start with the flashback!
  10. How I started to contribute to open source projects
  11. Why everything started with a Linux Day
  12. Mozilla, my house
  13. WordPress where my job and passions meet
  14. Last flashback
  15. Addendum (third edition)

Conclusion

  1. My (or your new) philosophy

The 4 freedoms of Open Source software/projects

  1. Do ut des
  2. Reporting
  3. The virtuosity of reports
  4. How to evolve it to the next Pokemon
  5. How to manage a new project or a legacy one

Conclusion

  1. Contributor Mode
  2. Donating money is not enough
  3. How to live inside the Open Source

Conclusion

  1. Gotta catch ‘em all
  2. Just ask yourself few questions
  3. Which questions you should ask yourself?

Conclusion

  1. What are the most common areas of activity?
  2. First level activities
  3. Second level activities

Conclusion

  1. How to find the most important value that you have: Time
  2. To-do list
  3. Optimization of tasks
  4. Use your boredom/break times
  5. Leadership
  6. Delegating
  7. Burnout

Conclusion

  1. Documentation! Documentation! Documentation!
  2. How to analyze an activity
  3. How to organize a social campaign
  4. Define the issues on onboarding

Conclusion

  1. Conclusion
  2. What is the future of the open source world in the next years?
  3. The Italian case
  4. Thanks
  5. Books that you need to read
  6. Other resources
  7. Appendix 1 for Community Managers
  8. What is a community manager? A Project Maintainer?
  9. Divide your community members to various levels
  10. How to do productive discussions
  11. How to manage a meeting
  12. How to approach a problem/improvement or how to organize a new project/team
  13. How to communicate
  14. How to talk with people
  15. How to write reports
  16. Why you need a script for your next event
  17. Communication channels
  18. How to do a roadmap
  19. Appendix 2 for Tech Speakers
  20. Schema to expose at the best your thoughts
  21. Ways to get inspiration (especially for funny facts)
  22. How to talk to the audience
  23. How to write a talk
  24. How to write a tech article
  25. Be ready for a CFP
  26. Appendix 3 for Mentors
  27. Open source is not for everyone
  28. What it means to be a mentor
  29. Motivate your mentees

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