Mark Smith
Founder/CTO, Dreamwidth Studios

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Mark Smith began volunteering with LiveJournal.com in 2001 in technical support and code development. He joined the staff in 2004, concentrating both on feature development and backend development, where he contributed heavily to utilities, such as Perlbal and MogileFS, that are in wide use by many other sites. After transitioning to Six Apart, Mark worked to design and build out the systems infrastructure for the Vox.com product launch. He currently works for Google. Mark resides near San Francisco, CA, USA with his wife Janine and their canine companions.

Sessions

1:40pm Wednesday, 07/21/2010

Build Your Own Contributors (One Part at a Time)

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Location: D136

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Denise Paolucci (Dreamwidth Studios), Mark Smith (Dreamwidth Studios)

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(3.92, 12 ratings)

With an increasing number of Open Source projects demanding attention, it can be hard to attract qualified contributors. Learn how to convert your community of users into a community of developers, through training, mentoring, and community management, from a project that's been hacking its hackers since day one. Read more.

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Mark Smith Founder/CTO, Dreamwidth Studios