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Lightning Talk: One Way to Encourage the Open Source Community

Takayuki Matsubara • June 23, 2017 • Singapore • Lightning Talk

In the lightning talk titled 'One Way to Encourage the Open Source Community,' Takayuki Matsubara, a software engineer at M3 Inc, presents an innovative approach to bolster contributions and recognition within the open source community, particularly focusing on GitHub projects. The central theme of the talk revolves around the significance of 'starring' projects on GitHub as a means of showing appreciation and support to developers. A GitHub star symbolizes recognition and can serve as a motivator for developers to maintain or create projects. Matsubara emphasizes that the total number of stars on a project is reflective of the overall activity and engagement within the open source community.

Key points discussed include:

  • The Importance of Starring Projects: Matsubara explains that putting a star on a GitHub project helps recognize and encourage the open source community, particularly emphasizing that many essential projects rely on cross-contributions from other open source projects.
  • Acknowledging Dependencies: He highlights a common disconnect where users often overlook the gems and libraries that their projects depend on, despite these gems being crucial to their development. This neglect creates a gap in visibility and support for those dependencies.
  • Introducing a Solution - 'understa': To bridge this gap, Matsubara introduces a command-line tool called 'understa' that enables users to automatically star the GitHub projects their own projects depend on. Users can execute this tool after running a bundle install command, which facilitates the seamless recognition of these dependencies.
  • Practical Demonstration: A demo is presented showing how to utilize 'understa' to add stars to these dependent projects, ensuring that contributions and acknowledgments flow back into the community. The demo illustrates the ease of use and the positive impact of recognizing the foundational tools of one’s own projects.
  • Cultivating a Supportive Environment: Matsubara encourages attendees to not only star their favorite projects but to also actively engage with and contribute to these projects to foster a richer open source ecosystem.

The conclusion of the talk underscores that every contribution to the open source community, no matter how small, can potentially amplify support and encourage the collaborative spirit inherent in open source development. Starring projects, learning, and actively participating in the open source community are highlighted as crucial components for nurturing growth and innovation within this space.

Lightning Talk: One Way to Encourage the Open Source Community
Takayuki Matsubara • Singapore • Lightning Talk

Date: June 23, 2017
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Speaker: Takayuki Matsubara, Software Engineer, M3 Inc

From the conclusion, it is to put a star on projects at GitHub. I'm very happy someone putting a star on my project. So if you already put a star on any projects, it encourage the open source community. But have you put a star on projects developed as oss used in your project? All of them? This talk proposes a solution that activates open source community by putting a star on projects which you depend.

Speaker's Bio

Takayuki Matsubara is a software engineer at M3, Inc. His day job is building and maintaining web apps. He loves open source community, has created chrono_logger, Power Assert in Elixir and other various.

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