AmyJune
Hineline
Senior Community Manager for Opensource.com at Red Hat
"Contributing to Open Source"
"Contributing to Open Source"
10 - 2:30 PM EDT/New York (See in local time)
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05//2025 2:30 PM
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Session: Contributing to Open Source
Open Source thrives on community contributions in the form of event organization, marketing, communications, volunteering, and yes, even code. This helps the projects move forward and stay relevant.Not everyone who works on open source projects is a coder or developer. Smaller tasks help people increase confidence and gain experience, which, in turn, leads to more contributions. Code is very important and so are all the other parts. Contributing back to Open Source helps folks to feel connected with their community. A more polished project leads to a better overall experience.
But how does one become a contributor? Together we’ll discuss what we can do as a community to help foster new contributors and keep the ones we already have.
Key Takeaways
- Anyone can contribute to open source, you don't have to be a developer
- Contributing helps people feel more connected to their communities
- Non-code contributions have just as much of an impact as code
Bio
AmyJune Hineline is the Senior Community Manager at Opensource.com, a project supported by Red Hat. She is also a Drupal Core Mentor. With a dual focus on both open-source community development and inclusivity, she is uniquely positioned to help individuals become more comfortable and confident as they contribute to their communities. She co-organizes various open-source camps and conventions globally, empowering individuals to forge deep community connections that benefit the whole. As a self-described non-coder, AmyJune helps communities discover how they can contribute and belong in more ways than code.