Sean Larkin is an award winning public speaker, giving talks all over the world on webpack, JavaScript, and web perf. Currently he is a SWE at Microsoft managing Web Infra for OneDrive/Sharepoint
Maintaining a project In my opinion takes a lot of passion and love for it and it's users. So with that in mind, I'd say picking a project that you really really really enjoy.
I love webpack, the experience it gave me, and most days I can't stop obsessing about it 😂.
Sean Larkin is an award winning public speaker, giving talks all over the world on webpack, JavaScript, and web perf. Currently he is a SWE at Microsoft managing Web Infra for OneDrive/Sharepoint
I guess to answer the second half is: show whatever existing team that you want to help and build and create the relationships with them over time. Gaining trust is part of how new responsibilities are handed over to potential maintainers.
Sean Larkin is an award winning public speaker, giving talks all over the world on webpack, JavaScript, and web perf. Currently he is a SWE at Microsoft managing Web Infra for OneDrive/Sharepoint
What motivates me more then the project itself is the people behind it.
A great example. I've been working to empower and create communities outside of the US for webpack. Specifically, Africa. I had recruited some very passionate and excited individuals who wanted to lead the efforts to help grow and teach the communities there and represent their voices (in many places where I cannot). So we met and talked about a few things and some take away items. This morning, I got this image in my twitter DM's:
This left me with watery eyes and a sense of overflowing joy and pride just being able to know that there are people out there who are just as passionate and excited to help grow and build a more vibrant, diverse, and inclusive community, even globally. At the end of the day if I can change one persons life for the better, I've won. And open source and the incredible blessings it has provided me, have been the perfect vessel to continue that mission.
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If someone wants to become a core contributor on a popular open source project, what would you recommend they do to get started on that path?
Maintaining a project In my opinion takes a lot of passion and love for it and it's users. So with that in mind, I'd say picking a project that you really really really enjoy.
I love webpack, the experience it gave me, and most days I can't stop obsessing about it 😂.
I guess to answer the second half is: show whatever existing team that you want to help and build and create the relationships with them over time. Gaining trust is part of how new responsibilities are handed over to potential maintainers.
Great advice. How do you keep up the motivation to keep contributing to the project?
What motivates me more then the project itself is the people behind it.
A great example. I've been working to empower and create communities outside of the US for webpack. Specifically, Africa. I had recruited some very passionate and excited individuals who wanted to lead the efforts to help grow and teach the communities there and represent their voices (in many places where I cannot). So we met and talked about a few things and some take away items. This morning, I got this image in my twitter DM's:
This left me with watery eyes and a sense of overflowing joy and pride just being able to know that there are people out there who are just as passionate and excited to help grow and build a more vibrant, diverse, and inclusive community, even globally. At the end of the day if I can change one persons life for the better, I've won. And open source and the incredible blessings it has provided me, have been the perfect vessel to continue that mission.