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Open Source Contributor Automation

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(How to Build An Open Source Self Service Machine)

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>300

Overall contributors

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Getting Contributors

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GSoC

Hackathon

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Issue Levels

“If I hadn’t had a newcomer task, I would

have worked on the Linux Kernel.”

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Documentation

“You just need it.”

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Respond now

“Quick responses for me was the thing.”

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Allow Non Code Discussions

“I really enjoy how we support each other and the fact that we don't only discuss on programming”

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Review Code

“One of my favorite things (...), is the review process - I've learned so much (...).”

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Let Code be Reviewed

“By giving reviews I've learnt to pickup issues in my code before the commit in the first place.”

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Promote

Reward

“You get a sense of appreciation.”

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Ask for Feedback!

“What made coala friendly was the eagerness to talk and help, and most of all asking for opinions from newcomers.”

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Live the Spirit

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coala.io/new

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coala.io/review

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Automate Maintenance

Tasks

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Get Rid of

Trivial Issues

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Make Everything Easily Available

coala.io/links

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gitmate.io

gitlab.com/coala/cobot

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Thanks!

Lasse Schuirmann, http://viperdev.io/

“I'm sold on virtualenvs by the way; they're the best thing since double stuff oreos”