Why People Don't Contribute To Your Open Source Project€¦ · Title: Why People Don't Contribute...
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@MikeMcQuaid
Why People Don’t Contribute To Your Open Source Project
! 📣 🛠
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@MikeMcQuaid
✅ open-sourced ✅ has users 🚫 has contributors 🚫 has maintainers
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@MikeMcQuaid
why does no-one contribute to my project?
😭
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@MikeMcQuaid
why does no-one buy
my product? 😭
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@MikeMcQuaid
(maybe it’s bad) 🙅
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@MikeMcQuaid
✅ product created ✅ product used 🚫 sales call made 🚫 product bought
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@MikeMcQuaid
! group 🔽 funnel ☝ upsell 🙋 retain
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@MikeMcQuaid
group !
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@MikeMcQuaid
why are they interacting with
your project? 🤔
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@MikeMcQuaid
users !
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@MikeMcQuaid
contributors 📣
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@MikeMcQuaid
maintainers 🛠
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@MikeMcQuaid
funnel 🔽
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@MikeMcQuaid
no-one ever became a contributor
without being a user first
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@MikeMcQuaid
no-one ever became a maintainer
without being a user
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@MikeMcQuaid
no-one excels as a maintainer
without remaining a user
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@MikeMcQuaid
leads
prospects
sales
🤔🧐💸
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@MikeMcQuaid
users
contributors
maintainers
!📣🛠
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@MikeMcQuaid
upsell ☝
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@MikeMcQuaid
most maintainers were talked into it
🙏
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@MikeMcQuaid
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@MikeMcQuaid
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@MikeMcQuaid
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@MikeMcQuaiddocs.brew.sh/How-To-Open-a-Homebrew-Pull-Request.html
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@MikeMcQuaiddocs.brew.sh/New-Maintainer-Checklist.html
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@MikeMcQuaid
retain 🙋
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@MikeMcQuaid
do you have a (very) leaky funnel?
☔
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@MikeMcQuaid
users
💰 high quality 😰 no guilt merges 🏗 no v2.0
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@MikeMcQuaid
contributors
🚳 no bike shedding ☎ open discussions 🔐 no feature issues
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@MikeMcQuaid
maintainers
💝 code of conduct 🔏 private chat 🌳 always growing
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@MikeMcQuaid
! group 🔽 funnel ☝ upsell 🙋 retain
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@MikeMcQuaid
why does everyone contribute to my project?
😍
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@MikeMcQuaid
questions? 🙇