Your Community Is Your Best Feature

• Introduction
  • Hi! I'm Gina Trapani on GitHub and Twitter (follow me)
  • I work at Expert Labs leading development on ThinkUp
  • My first OSS transformative moment: git volunteer
  • Greg's Guide to GitHub Collaboration
• Enable peer consultation
  • The Web Is a Customer Service Medium by Paul Ford
  • Tools for consultation: Google Groups, Skitch, Mockingbird, Pastebin, Stack Overflow, Freenode
  • GitHub Pull Request Email Bot
• Convert newcomers into contributors
  • Google Summer of Code
  • ThinkUp Mentor Program Summer 2011 Community Interest Survey
  • The frustration of a non-developer by Erwin Blom
  • Nerd Merit Badge - Open Source
• Cast a wide net
  • Designers, Women, and Hostility in Open Source by Gina Trapani
  • Colorblind Leading the Blind by Andy Baio
  • The Case Against Drop-down Identities by Gina Trapani
  • Disalienation: Why Gender is a Text Field on Diaspora by Sarah Mei
• Help your community fulfill its destiny
  • Making Something Meaningful by Anil Dash
  • Producing Open Source Software by Karl Fogel
  • Comment on Gnome Bugzilla #78514 by Ian Hands
• How'd I do?
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