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Sarah Rainsberger

Sarah Rainsberger

Sarah Rainsberger leads a large open-source software documentation project with several maintainers and over 1000 community contributors. She brings a background in high school mathematics education, academic counseling, and curriculum development to her current technical writing and open source community building. She lives in Atlantic Canada with her husband J. B. (Joe). In her spare time, she photographs birds.
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Making Meaningful Contributions to Open Source
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Making Meaningful Contributions to Open Source
Open source projects need help – but not always in the ways you think! Once you know enough React to be helpful, it's natural to think about features or improvements you can add to your favourite repositories. But maintainers are typically overburdened and even "help" can create extra work for them. This talk will show how you can make meaningful contributions (including, but not limited to code!) that will endear you to maintainers so you can contribute with confidence and work with maintainer goals to support their work.
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