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title: Oops! I Became an Open Source Maintainer!
osem_url: https://osem.seagl.org/conferences/seagl2020/program/proposals/725
beginning: '2020-11-13T10:10:00.000-08:00'
end: '2020-11-13T10:40:00.000-08:00'
resources:
  internet_archive_identifier: SeaGL2020-Mariatta_Wijaya-Oops_I_Became_an_Open_Source_Maintainer
presenters:
- name: Mariatta Wijaya
  affiliation: Python Core Developer & Vancouver PyLadies
  osem_url: https://osem.seagl.org/users/622
  gravatar_id: 6b6e72d297aa0270654a0d4575f1287e
  biography: Mariatta is a Python Core Developer. She works as a software engineer
    in Vancouver, and helps to organize Vancouver PyLadies meetup.
---

I consider myself relatively new to the open source world; my first open source contribution was in summer of 2016. Pretty soon I found myself being given commit rights to other people’s open source projects. Being a new open source maintainer brings a set of unique challenges that I was not fully prepared for. In this talk, I will share my journey and the things I’ve learned along the way, and some advice for other aspiring open source maintainers and contributors.
