Let Me In: Guidelines for the Successful Onboarding of Newcomers to Open Source Projects

Igor Steinmacher,Marco Aurelio Gerosa,Christoph Treude

doi:10.1109/ms.2018.110162131

Let Me In: Guidelines for the Successful Onboarding of Newcomers to Open Source Projects

Igor Steinmacher, Marco Aurelio Gerosa + Show 1 more

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https://doi.org/10.1109/ms.2018.110162131

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Journal: IEEE Software	Publication Date: Jul 1, 2019
Citations: 78	License type: cc-by-nc-nd

Affiliation: Northern Arizona University, University of Adelaide

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Many community-based open source software (OSS) projects depend on a continuous influx of newcomers for their survival and continuity, yet newcomers face many barriers to contributing to a project. We provide guidelines based on our previous work for both OSS communities and newcomers to OSS projects.

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