Students, conferences, and the first contribution
Why a conference ticket can matter more to a young contributor than to a seasoned one, and how to make that first room welcoming.
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GHOP
Writing about the Google Highly Open Participation contest and what happens when pre university students are given real open source work.
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02 Configurable text filters and the case for point and click
An introduction to the idea behind Flexifilter: let site builders define text transformations in the interface instead of in code.
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03 The quiet power of a repeatable test
Why automated checks change the mood of a project, and how a shared testing vocabulary lowers the cost of contribution.
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04 Young contributors and the right to be taken seriously
A reflection on age, trust, and what open communities lose when they treat new people as a marketing number.
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