For many people it's very challenging to jump the bar from being a silent user of open source software to reaching out to the community, even just to ask a question. And some, or maybe rather many, of these people will never get there to take that step, which could change their lives.
In this episode of the My Open Source Experience podcast Engin Kayraklioglu talks about his first experience with the Chapel open source programming language project, and community. He was part of an internship program which helped him get over his fear of reaching out to people he only saw talking on chat platforms, in emails and in code reviews. He didn't just become a project maintainer later, but also started to mentor newcomers himself.
Learn more about:
- The invisible barriers stopping people from getting out of being only a silent user
- The impact of seeing people and hearing them talk about the open source project they maintain
- The Chapel project and internship program
- Becoming an open source mentor, and the Google Summer of Code program
- How being a mentor shapes how a person approches the OSS project they maintain, along with newcomers
Update: Since the recording of this podcast Engin has moved on from HPE to explore new endeavors.
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