Open source lessons learned (The Changelog #248)
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Zeno Rocha, Principal Developer Advocate at Liferay, joined the show to talk about DevRel, his open source work (clipboard.js, Dracula Theme, jQuery Boilerplate, Browser Diet, et al), and his passion for teaching and giving talks at conferences. Zeno also shared some really interesting stories about his first contributions to open source, how that played out, and the lessons learned along the way.
Zeno Rocha, Principal Developer Advocate at Liferay, joined the show to talk about DevRel, his open source work (clipboard.js, Dracula Theme, jQuery Boilerplate, Browser Diet, et al), and his passion for teaching and giving talks at conferences. Zeno also shared some really interesting stories about his first contributions to open source, how that played out, and the lessons learned along the way.
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Featuring
Zeno Rocha – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Notes and Links
Special thanks to Justin Dorfman for helping connect us to Zeno Rocha for this episode — BTW check out SustainOSS.org, a one day conversation on June 19, 2017 about sustaining open source. We’ll be there!
DevRelSummit
Liferay
clipboard.js
Issue #56: OT: How did the repo get 5000 stars in a few days?
jQuery Boilerplate
Issue #10: Everything is wrong, so deleted all of it, this way you can start over and do it right.
Browser Diet - The definitive front-end performance guide.
Dracula Theme
DevSpace - Stay up to date with what’s happening now on GitHub
The Changelog #246: First-time Contributors and Maintainer Balance
with Kent C. Dodds
Reminder on how you spend your time
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!