Are you new to open source? Maybe you've been using it for a long time and never got around to

contributing to it? Wondering how to get started? In this episode, you'll meet Anthony Shaw,

Dan Bader, and Ronald Maravanika. All of these guys have been successful open source developers.

I speak with them about how to find a welcoming project and what you need to know to get started.

We also cover what open source project maintainers can do to help attract new and experienced contributors.

This is Talk Python to Me, episode 132 recorded July 27th, 2017.

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Hey everyone. Before we get to the interview, I just want to share a little bit of the backstory

with you real quick here. So right before the show started, something happened in Zimbabwe

that made this really difficult for Ronald to be on the show. There was a citywide power outage

where he lives. Unfortunately, it's something

that happens every now and then. And right before we started recording, he had to scramble to find a place

where he could just get in touch with us and get online. His audio might not be as good as he had

planned. And I just want to let you know so you don't think, you know, he didn't set up for this. Like he made heroic efforts to get onto the show. And I just want to let you know so you don't think you know he didn't set up for this like he made heroic efforts to get onto the show and I just want to say thank you a special

thank you to Ronald for that and also if you're thinking about the challenges of being a software

developer sitting in the US or Europe or somewhere like that where the power is on 99.99% of the

time and it's all a matter of just the code.

Think about battling things like power outages just to contribute to open source.

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