Selfish Contribution

Selfish Contribution Francesca Marano

Ciao! Sono Francesca • WordPress Community & Partnership Manager SiteGround • Release Co-Lead 5.3 and 5.4 WordPress.org

Accidental OSS Contributor @FrancescaMarano

My path 2010 - Freelancer 2011 - Translated a plugin I was using 2015 - Started contributing to WordPress.org 2017 - Community Team Representative 2018 - Joined SiteGround 2019 - Release Co-Lead @FrancescaMarano

SiteGround Linux Kernel Patches (loads of them!) WordPress - Core, Gutenberg, Security, Events, Community and Translations @FrancescaMarano

The Cathedral and the Bazaar Eric S. Raymond @FrancescaMarano

1. Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch @FrancescaMarano

18. To solve an interesting problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you. @FrancescaMarano

Be Selfish @FrancescaMarano

Pick a project Useful for your work Report a bug Fix a bug @FrancescaMarano

Get involved with a project Attend chats/calls Connect with people Be polite @FrancescaMarano

Learn from a project New tools New processes Ask questions @FrancescaMarano

Tangible results - Individuals New skills New connections New professional opportunities @FrancescaMarano

Tangible results - Companies Better software that can be safely used Discussions with like-minded people Recognition @FrancescaMarano

We strive to identify security risks. We often have discussions with the core Linux developers, we try to contribute whenever we can. So far we have written hundreds of kernel patches, dozens of which are part of the mainline Linux kernel code Angel Shtilianov Linux Kernel Dev at SiteGround @FrancescaMarano

Be Selfless Be Generous @FrancescaMarano

Two moments Step Up aka Learn Step Down aka Teach @FrancescaMarano

5. When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor. @FrancescaMarano

Examples Handoff of a blog I ran for years Helping my colleagues with giving talks Recruiting people to help in working groups Document everything @FrancescaMarano

What’s in it for me? @FrancescaMarano

Sense of accomplishment Sense of pride Validation Recognition New skills = Better CV @FrancescaMarano

Make it better, give it back John Blackbourn @FrancescaMarano

Links and Documentation Make WordPress GitHub - How To Contribute The Cathedral and the Bazaar Helen Hou-Sandí - Open Source, Open Process, Open Web My reflections as a release co-lead @FrancescaMarano

Let’s continue the conversation Francesca Marano francesca.marano@siteground.com Where Online siteground.com siteground.com/blog Online @FrancescaMarano @SiteGround