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How to empower your open source users and contributors

Breaking down the barriers to open source
April 04, 2022

How can you empower your community to be productive with and within your open source project?

When the concept of open source first emerged, people collaborated on projects very intentionally. Without today’s vast internet and information retrieval systems, the network of people (largely researchers) working on these shared systems largely grew via word-of-mouth. If you were working on a piece of software with folks outside of your institution, you likely would have communicated with them directly prior to them ever viewing a single line of code.

Even as more of the world gained access to the internet, finding information was a challenge.

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