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Episode 28: Open Source and Companies with Nell Shamrell-Harrington

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Open Source and Companies with Nell Shamrell-Harrington

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Guest

Nell Shamrell-Harrington: Senior Software Development Engineer at Chef, CTO of Operation Code. nellshamrell.com

Summary

What's it like to run an Open Source project as part of your day job? How does open source change when it's backed by a company? Why is it useful for a company to run open source projects? Nell Shamrell-Harrington, who runs the Habitat project for Chef is on the show to talk about open source contributing and maintenance. You'll come away with some ways to be a better contributor and maintainer.

Notes

01:57 - Nell’s History Working on Open Source

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    • 03:37 - Open Source Governance

    • The FreeBSD Project

      • 07:07 - Chef, Having Community Discussions, and Handling RFCs and Contributions

      • Chef Compliance
      • Habitat

        • 13:48 - Being Involved in DevProgress and Campaign Volunteering as a Developer

        20:57 - Closed Source vs Open Source Development

        25:48 - Advice for Getting Started in Open Source and Emphasis on Defined Codes of Conduct

        27:44 - Accepting & Reviewing Pull Requests and Being Clear on What Tools Are For and Looking For in Contributions

        32:29 - Common Mistakes Among Contributors and Maintainers

        • RailsConf 2017: Teaching RSpec to Play nice with Rails by Sam Phippen

          • 34:55 - Keeping Open Source Projects Sustainable

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