{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Business of Open Source","title":"Enhancing Your Contributor Growth Strategy With Dawn Foster","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/14c8adc7\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1797,"description":"Dawn Foster, Director of Open Source Community Strategy at VMware, is a champion of community strategy and development. A doctor of Philosophy, Foster is well-versed in the understanding of collaboration and leverages her mountain of knowledge to fight for the health of maintainers in open-source projects.\nIn this episode of The Business of Open Source, Dawn Foster joins me from the Open Source Summit North America to tackle community strategy and contribution growth methods. Foster also touches on the differences between open contributions and what project leads should do to help grow their maintainers.\n\nHighlights:\nWhy is it essential to have a contributor growth strategy? (1:46)\nLoss of control (3:10)\nHow to be proactive for project growth (4:24)\nProactive communication to foster a relationship (7:15)\nNon-code contributions are just as crucial as maintainers (9:47)\nIs it a mistake to have no contributor growth strategy (12:20)\nOne tactic when being a single maintainer (13:33)\nReplacing your maintainers (16:02)\nDon't get arrested (18:10)\nImproving your skills in maintaining  (19:17)\nNavigating contributions to a project (21:29)\nIncreasing the number of contributions per person (24:13)\nExample of a good growth strategy (27:07)\n\nLinks:\nDawn \nLinkedIn\nTwitter\nVMware","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/8IkNaFmPeP0cacpN72wvWvmuTJkRWMTzK4anhRhTwJg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzEwNTI5LzE2NTY1/MTIwMDAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}