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title: The importance and role of community in open source

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**General info**
- **Video connection details:**
- Zoom ID: 662 0907 5434
- Zoom password: rse
- Zoom invite link: https://uwasa.zoom.us/j/66209075434?pwd=VmRBaFRVOXNKNFRYb1NDRGY5SXZndz09
- **Contact:**
- **Date and time**: 2022-02-16 17:00 CET [convert to your timezone](https://arewemeetingyet.com/Stockholm/2022-02-16/17:00)
- **This page:** https://hackmd.io/fp8dZitFQwGGws0XY6S1Xg
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# The importance and role of community in open source

## Ice breaker question

- Do you consider yourself member of some open source community? If yes, which one?
- JuliaIntervals, Julia community in general

## About the series

This is an event in the Nordic RSE seminar series.
* Reminder about starting recording
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## About the Nordic RSE

* Represents Research Software Engineers in the Nordics.
* Check out [nordic-rse.org](https://nordic-rse.org/) for other activities.
* Registereed as an association in Fall 2021.

## Speaker: Logan Kilpatrick

Logan Kilpatrick is the Developer Community Advocate for the Julia programming language and formerly the Community Manager. He is also on the Board of Directors at NumFOCUS, the non-profit that supports projects like Jupyter, NumPy, Pandas, Julia, and more.

## Abstract

Open Source is more than code. In order for an Open Source project to thrive, it must put in place mechanism to attract and reward non-code contributions. In this talk, we will go over how the Julia community attracts and rewards these contributions as well as how other projects can learn from our experience.

## Ask your questions here

- is this a question?
- yes, and this is an answer

- [Julia contribution guideline](https://julialang.org/contribute/)

- [ropensci contributing guide](https://contributing.ropensci.org/motivations.html)