Michael Jackson's Man in the Mirror parody about the joys of contributing to open source.
Written and presented at Write the Docs Prague. Slides were run using GitBook. Link to video soon.
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(TBA)
Have you ever been in a situation
Using open source software,
And you can’t work out how to run it?
Wouldn’t it feel real good to make a difference?
To make it right?
As I open the manual
To do my task at hand,
I find it’s so hard to read.
It’s a mess, duplicates,
Ambiguities!
Who am I, to be blind, pretending that I can’t proofread?
A website 404,
Then tweeting back and forth,
How to make that change?
My comments got lost in the backlog black hole
'Till I found the place to go,
And I found I wasn’t alone…
I’m starting with a fork of the repo.
I’m asking you to change the text.
The message gonna get so much clearer.
If you wanna make the docs a better place,
Checkout a branch, make a pull request.
(second time with clapping and audience joins in, repeat ad infinitum)
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