Leadership in Open Source by Isaac Schlueter

• talk: https://vimeo.com/77289729

On this talk by the creator on NPM, Isaac Schlueter, he focus on the leadership in the open source communities. Some key points:

• Being persistent is important.
• Great leaders come up through natural growth and communication with community.
• If something goes wrong:
  • think about what to do in the future to avoid the same problem; and
  • own and take responsibility for it.
• Leadership involves making constant improvements and corrections over time.
• When thinking about something, don’t look at your past self, look at the present.
• Don’t care about looking foolish. It will happen.
• Help the others.
• “Empathy is a core engineering value”