No-Code OSS Contributions
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Cecelia Martinez
Developer Advocate, Ionic
⭐️ GitHub Stars Program
🏳️🌈 Out in Tech Atlanta Chapter Head
👩🏽💻 WWC Front End Volunteer
🟩 OSS DevTools Enthusiast
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Benefits of OSS Contributions
- Experience with real-world codebases
- Public portfolio of your work
- Collaborate with a community
- Gain feedback from maintainers
- Improve OSS ecosystem
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Hurdles to Code Contributions
- Lack of documentation
- Developer environment setup
- Limited experience
- Complex CI, testing, build, or deployment issues
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What are we building with OSS projects?
Software
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Contributions can occur anywhere along the Software Development Life Cycle
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Software Development Life Cycle
Code
Maintain
Deploy
Test
Analyze
Design
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Software Development Life Cycle
Analyze
- Feature Requests
- Triage GitHub Issues
- Voting and Discussion
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Software Development Life Cycle
Design
- User Interfaces
- UX Workflow Diagrams
- Component Design
- Design Systems
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Software Development Life Cycle
Test
- Manual Q&A
- Generating Test Code
- Test Case Management
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Software Development Life Cycle
Mantain
- User Documentation
- Reproducible bug reports
- Dependency management
- PR reviews
- Translations/i18n
- A11y audits
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What are we building with OSS projects?
Community
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OSS Community Contributions
Community
- Contributor Documentation
- Forum Support
- Examples & Resources
- Advocacy
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As a maintainer, the more diverse the contribution types you enable, the more diverse your contributors.
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Contributor Enablement
- Be descriptive and intentional about contribution types welcome
- Leverage built-in resources like Contributing Guide & Templates
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- Continually solicit and address feedback from contributors
- Foster a community platform
Contributor Enablement
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Contributor Empowerment
- Make contributors feel confident
- Encourage contributions of all types
- Provide a welcoming, inclusive environment
- clear Code of Conduct
- well-documented processes
- constructive feedback
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More contributions
More contributors
A more diverse and inclusive contributor community
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Resources
- Video: Unlock the value of open source with Open Sauced
- Blog: Contribute to open source without knowing how to code
- Guide: Building Welcoming Communities
- Extension: Cypress Chrome Recorder
- Guide: Replay.io/OSS
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No-Code OSS Contributions
@ceceliacreates