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Shauna GM

You ever go to link a blog post and realize you never actually finished the post? That happened to me yesterday with my #FOSSBackstage talk. So today I finished/published said post.

I present: Six Ways to Onboard New Contributors

relational-tech.com/blog/six-w

It rounds up my best suggestions for welcoming newcomers:

- context-building tasks
- FRAME tasks
- tasks that utilize newcomer ignorance
- tasks that utilize newcomer expertise
- pairing

and most important: letting new contributors "just be"

Relational TechSix Ways to Onboard New ContributorsOnboarding new contributors is hard. Here are six different approaches to welcoming newcomers to your project.
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Shauna GM

All done! I'll share the recording once it's ready.

Thanks #FOSSBackstage for hosting this talk! It's the first time I've given it and I'm looking forward to iterating on it and improving it. If you know of any conferences, meetups, groups, etc who'd like to hear a version of it, LMK.

There was a ton of stuff I had to cut from the talk which I'll be posting about here and on my website relational-tech.com over the next few weeks.

#FOSSBack
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Max Mehl

As multiple people already asked for it, here are the slides of my #FOSSbackstage talk I gave yesterday on "Burden of Knowledge - Dealing with Risks in Open Source".

mehl.mx/docs/2025-03-Managing-

If you're still at the conference and would like to talk about software supply chain, identifying and managing risks strategically and ideally in a collaborative manner, find me!

#fossback @FOSSBackstage @dbsystel #dbsystel #supplychain #sbom

Title slide of my presentation. Title: "The Burden of Knowledge - Dealing with risks in Open Source" with a DB and DB Systel logo on it. In the background, a photo of a laptop screen with some code on it.
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Shauna GM

Enjoy your coffee break, #FOSSBackstage stagehands! I'm sipping a homemade latte over here in DC.

When the conference resumes, I'll be giving a talk, "Relationship Problems In Open Source", about how we can view some of the most common #FOSS challenges, such as burnout, onboarding, funding, and UX, through a relational lens.

If you want a sneak peek you can check out the slides here: relational-tech.com/misc/Relat

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Daniel Appelquist

Listening to a talk at #FOSSBackstage from Ashley Sametz "Commit to Inclusion: Building Better Open Source Culture" including a depressing litany of tech companies (including Amazon, Google, Shopify and Meta) that have rolled back DEI efforts. Not OK. Open source communities need to push back against this regressive trend.

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Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:

Excellent* audience question: with the calls for more “sovereignty” in open source, what about the global collaboration nature of open source, aren’t those at odds with each other and is there a danger for losing out on collaboration if we silo ourselves into EUOS, USOS and ChinaOS? #FOSSBackstage

(*for once!)

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