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To Sir, with Love: How To Get More Women Involved in Open Source
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Encouraging non-code contributions |
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2007-10-01 08:18:27 |
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sdeckelmann
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Response to: Encouraging none code contributions
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I agree that women:
have to be encouraged to take on the hard core, high value, high reputation roles.
Howeer, over the lifetime of a project, non-code contributions become very important. PostgreSQL, for example, has a very strict policy about including documentation with patches. In a presentation about how to contribute, Josh Berkus listed 50 ways, only five of which were code.
I think the perspective on what constitutes an open source project has shifted (some might say "matured" :) in the last ten years from "just the code" to the whole lifecycle of design, documentation, implementation and support.
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