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Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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Monday, October 22 • 16:15 - 16:55
Scaling Your Developer Community via Plugins - Greg Sutcliffe, Red Hat

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Finding developers to work on your project is hard. Most growth in developer communities is organic - that is, they find you and decide to contribute - which is fine, but perhaps there are other ways to get people involved?

In this talk, Greg will use his experiences of developing plugins for a project as a way to enable more contribution. Users frequently encounter the "last mile problem" in which a project solves 90% of their issue, but they want the flexibility to fix the rest. Plugins enable motivated users to fix their own issues, and a good plugin architecture encourages them to share that plugin with other users. In effect, they become a part of the developer community, invested in it's growth.

We'll look at the pros & cons of supporting plugins, ways in which you can share plugins, maintainer strategies, and more, drawing on examples from communities like TheForeman, config management, Discourse, and more.
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Gregory Sutcliffe

Community Manager, Red Hat
Greg has been the community manager of the Foreman project for 4 years, at Red Hat for 6 years, and involved with Foreman for over 7 years. He's been a public speaker for many years, at conferences like FOSDEM, CfgMgmtCamp, DevConf, as well as local meetups, on wide ranging topics... Read More →

Monday October 22, 2018 16:15 - 16:55 BST
Cromdale Hall B, Level -2
  Open Collaboration Conference

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