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Code's the Word: Growing your Open Source Community through Blogging

Code's the Word: Growing your Open Source Community through Blogging

Blogging is the glue that holds an open source community together. In this presentation, Uber's Molly Vorwerck discusses how to leverage blogging and social media to amplify your project's voice by sh …
Talk Title Code's the Word: Growing your Open Source Community through Blogging
Speakers Molly Vorwerck (Managing Editor, Uber)
Conference Open Source Summit North America
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Location Vancouver, BC, Canada
Date Aug 27-31, 2018
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Blogging is the glue that holds an open source community together. In this presentation, Uber’s Molly Vorwerck discusses how to leverage blogging and social media to amplify your project’s voice by sharing best practices for crafting a technical blog article, social engagement tactics, and innovative article ideas that veer off the beaten path of “here is what I built & here is how you use it”-type content. At the end of this presentation, you will have the skill set necessary to take your open source project from the depths of GitHub to the front page of Hacker News.

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