Justin Searls: The Social Coding Contract

Developing programs in Ruby almost certainly means using software developed by other people. This means that your software — and maybe even your business — now depends on the quality of software written by people you don’t know, and who don’t owe you any support. How can we improve this state of affairs? How can we improve the ways in which people within the open-source ecosystem improve their communication, trust, and general interest in working together for everyone’s mutual benefit? In this talk, Justin Searls describes the current state of open source, and describes different ways in which open-source contributors and their users might be able to improve not only the code, but also the ways in which that code is developed.

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