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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard • Edited

It's like cooking.
We sell our food to customers,
but we also share our recipes between us,
some follow the recipe line by line,
others interpret it in their own way

Contributing to Open-Source feels like dancing Tango:

  • it feels weird to interact like this with a total stranger
  • keep it simple and focus on making a connection
  • to really understand that social dance, be both a contributor and a maintainer