... or how I learned to stop worrying and love dealing with grumpy people.
What’s it like to maintain an open source project? How could you get involved in one yourself? How do you know what you’re doing is working?
We’ll discuss my experience taking over administrate, how you can do something similar and discuss some strategies to make maintaining projects easier.
About our speaker
Nick is a developer at thoughtbot (thoughtbot.com), where he builds software in a variety of languages and helps lead projects. Nick maintains administrate (github.com), shoulda (github.com) and appraisal (github.com) at thoughtbot, plus a few of his own projects.
About thoughtbot
We are thoughtbot. We have worked with hundreds of product teams all over the world, from individual founders who are self-funded, to large multi-national organizations. We have also created our own products and dozens of open source libraries.
About our venue
Our meetup will take place at our usual venue, Union St (www.union-st.org).
After the meetup, we’ll be heading to The Devonshire Cat (www.devonshirecat.co.uk) for drinks and a chat.
More details and tickets: www.meetup.com
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If you're new to Ruby or want to learn more about Rails then feel free to drop in.
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