Gina Trapani

CodeConf, April 9, 2011

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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