Finite Source Machines Contribution for Busy Humans Brian Muenzemeyer — ATO 13 2025

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Finite Source Machines Contribution for Busy Humans Brian Muenzemeyer — ATO 13 2025

$9 ,000,000,000,00 0 demand-side value of open source software

Randal Munroe xkcd.com/2347 Adam Leventhal mastodon.social/@ahl/112243122623783002

CRITICAL FRAGILE

Prado Islesworth Hermitage

Islesworth Raphael Louvre Prado Hermitage

Leonardo Da Vinci

Jack of All Trades

“Renaissance Man”

Polymath

Busy

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Celebrate Your Skillset

Celebrate Your Skillset… And I Donʼt Mean This!

Celebrate Your Skillset… In All Its Range

Work… In a

Play a role Tobias and the Angel The Baptism of Christ

Example: End of Life Feature Development

Detour: Data Integrity Analysis and Entry

More examples: Tackle the tasks that interest you Dependency Update Testing Internationalization

Example: Information Architecture Exploration

Figma Breakdown

Figma Breakdown…to Content Inventory…

Figma Breakdown…to Content Inventory…to Issue

Observe Relentlessly

The typo as psoterchild of entry

Triage, corroborate, and help others

Practice

Online coding options lower barrier to entry https://codepen.io/ksenia-k/pen/xxoqXbJ

Entire environments in your browser Codespaces

REPLs to see before install Read, Eval, Print, Loop)

Come Up For Air

Bring New to Conversation

❌❌❌ Passive Voice

Context and Recommendation

Recommendation and Solution

Stop Building Contribution Ladders

Art is Work

Open Source is Work

You Don’t Need Permission

Find a Patron Worthy of You

Poly • math

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● innovation can be quick / creators have agency to explore ● competition puts pressure on established systems to improve ● maintainers craving momentum and stability have space and time to cultivate ● layers exist for anyone to contribute within their means

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