2020-07-15 –, Amsterdam Meetup, [Sessions start: Wednesday 15.07 6pm (Wednesday 15.07 9 am PDT)]
Engaging with a new community is a common experience in OSS development.
There are usually expectations held by the project about the contributor's exposure
to the community, and by the contributor about interactions with the community.
When these expectations are misaligned, the process is strained. In this talk,
I'll discuss a real life experience that required communication,
persistence, and patience to ultimately lead to a positive outcome.
I hope to create a talk that can tell the story of a new contributor.
Vanessa is a research software engineer for the Stanford Research Computing Center. She received her PhD in Biomedical Informatics in 2016, and stayed at Stanford to focus on open source software development for scientific reproducibility. Her work includes development of container technologies, workflow software, and recipes for continuous integration. She is passionate about programming and system design, and continues to run the Singularity Hub container registry and maintain a large set of open source libraries. When not programming, Vanessa can be found eating avocados, recording podcast episodes or fun videos, making dinosaur noises, and running outside in the snow.