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what was the project? how did you get involved? what did you do? What did you like / dislike about the experience?
Have you ever contributed to a open source project?
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docker is actively seeking new contributors
There's a lot of momentum behind the Docker project, but it takes a long time to build a self-sustaining community around any technology. It takes real contribution and a commitment to collaboration. This is the currency of your karmic bank account.
I'd like to say that we started off knowing this, but the truth is this is a lesson we had to learn the hard way. When we put our competitive concerns first, it didn't work. When we started with the question: “what can we get out of this?†it didn't work. When we viewed the others at the table as threats instead of partners, it didn't work. Trust works.
Maybe you want to make Docker work and are ready to make an investment in trust through contribution and collaboration. Here are a few suggestions on where to get started:
•Make Docker better by contributing to the core code. Today, there are about 425 developers who have contributed code to this project. Become number 426.
•Add your dockerized application to the public index so that others can take advantage of your work.
•Participate in project governance and apply to join the advisory board.
•Add documentation.
•Explain and evangelize the work that's going on here to your friends and coworkers.
•If you're a manager, add a line item to your budget for socialization and conference participation. Give your people an opportunity to forge connections with others in this community.
•Develop in the open so other engineers can find and support your work as you do it.
•Keep your repositories open and invite input from as diverse a cross section of this community as possible.
•If you want to help make Docker more usable in the cloud, join us. Meet our engineers driving this work while many of them are here in San Francisco for the Docker conference or join us on IRC (Freenode: #docker-rackspace).
Contribution And Collaboration In The Docker Community
There's a lot of momentum behind the Docker project, but it takes a long time to build a self-sustaining community around any technology. It takes real contribution and a commitment to collaboration. This is the currency of your karmic bank account.
I'd like to say that we started off knowing this, but the truth is this is a lesson we had to learn the hard way. When we put our competitive concerns first, it didn't work. When we started with the question: “what can we get out of this?†it didn't work. When we viewed the others at the table as threats instead of partners, it didn't work. Trust works.
Maybe you want to make Docker work and are ready to make an investment in trust through contribution and collaboration. Here are a few suggestions on where to get started:
•Make Docker better by contributing to the core code. Today, there are about 425 developers who have contributed code to this project. Become number 426.
•Add your dockerized application to the public index so that others can take advantage of your work.
•Participate in project governance and apply to join the advisory board.
•Add documentation.
•Explain and evangelize the work that's going on here to your friends and coworkers.
•If you're a manager, add a line item to your budget for socialization and conference participation. Give your people an opportunity to forge connections with others in this community.
•Develop in the open so other engineers can find and support your work as you do it.
•Keep your repositories open and invite input from as diverse a cross section of this community as possible.
•If you want to help make Docker more usable in the cloud, join us. Meet our engineers driving this work while many of them are here in San Francisco for the Docker conference or join us on IRC (Freenode: #docker-rackspace).
Contribution And Collaboration In The Docker Community
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