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Open Source Contributing with Brian Douglas

November 8, 2023·48 min·3 clips

Open source developer Josh Goldberg hosts Brian Douglas, founder of OpenSauced and former GitHub Director of Developer Experience, for a conversation covering how to get involved in open source, what makes good first issues actually useful, the difference between DevRel at a startup versus GitHub scale, how Brian built his career from collections agent to developer advocate, the 101/201/301/401 content framework, and how OpenSauced measures new contributors as a better signal than GitHub stars.

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A practical open source conversation about contribution, discovery, and what healthy projects actually look like.

Open source is treated less as a slogan than as a question of access: how do developers move from admiring a project to contributing to it? Brian Douglas makes a credible case for looking past star counts and paying attention to new contributors as a healthier sign of project…

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