Ten simple rules for helping newcomers become contributors to open projects

Publishing date: 2019-09-26

Published on: PLOS Computational Biology

summary: Open source projects are nothing but a collaborative effort of community members. The constant involvement of maintainers, contributors, and users make open source software sustainable and keeps the community as a whole going. Attracting new members, retaining them, and helping them be productive is not always as easy task. “Ten simple rules for helping newcomers become contributors to open projects”, as stated in the title, discusses ten simple rules projects should follow to help new contributors into their communities.

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authors: Dan Sholler, Igor Steinmacher, Denae Ford, Mara Averick, Mike Hoye, Greg Wilson

link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007296

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