Open source lessons learned (Interview)

Zeno Rocha, Principal Developer Advocate at Liferay, joined the show to talk about DevRel, his open source work (clipboard.js, Dracula Theme, jQuery Boilerplate, Browser Diet, et al), and his passion for teaching and giving talks at conferences. Zeno also shared some really interesting stories about his first contributions to open source, how that played out, and the lessons learned along the way.

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Featuring:

• Zeno Rocha – Website, GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Special thanks to Justin Dorfman for helping connect us to Zeno Rocha for this episode — BTW check out SustainOSS.org, a one day conversation on June 19, 2017 about sustaining open source. We’ll be there!

• DevRelSummit
• Liferay
• clipboard.js
• Issue #56: OT: How did the repo get 5000 stars in a few days?
• jQuery Boilerplate
• Issue #10: Everything is wrong, so deleted all of it, this way you can start over and do it right.
• Browser Diet - The definitive front-end performance guide.
• Dracula Theme
• DevSpace - Stay up to date with what’s happening now on GitHub
• The Changelog #246: First-time Contributors and Maintainer Balance
  with Kent C. Dodds
• Reminder on how you spend your time

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