Growing an OSS project by turning followers into leaders
RWX / CDX
Fort Lauderdale · November 27 - 30, 2012
About this Presentation
Open Source is about building a community of developers and users around a project willing to cooperate, exchange ideas and provide peer review. Participating in the project provides mutual benefit to all parties, including better software, skill improvement, respect, and being a member of a group of peers. But how does it happen? What motivates people to join your project? How do you grow the community?
We'll use Seam 3 as a case study. We'll present the factors we believe led to a 3000% increase in the project team in just one year, with many contributors leading one or more modules of the project. By the end of this talk, you should have plenty of ideas about how to increase participation so your project can realize these benefits.
Senior Software Engineer Red Hat
Jason Porter is a software engineer currently working in the Java Enterprise Edition Space at Red Hat. His specialties include Red Hat JBoss EAP, Wildfly, Seam, CDI, JSF, Java EE, Gradle. He has worked with PHP, Ruby (both stand-alone and Rails), Groovy, XSLT, SASS, and the rest of the web language arena (HTML, CSS, JS, etc).
His current position as Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat has him work primarily on jboss.org, however, he also contributes to JBoss Forge, Arquillian, Apache DeltaSpike, Asciidoctor, Awestruct and others as time allows. He's very interested in the developer experience and helping to improve it at all aspects.