Asheesh Laroia

Asheesh Laroia
Project lead, OpenHatch

Website | @asheeshlaroia | Attendee Directory Profile

Asheesh loves growing camaraderie among geeks. He chaired the Johns Hopkins Association for Computing Machinery and taught Python classes at Noisebridge, San Francisco’s hackerspace. He realizes that most of the work that makes projects successful is hidden underneath the surface.

He has volunteered his technical skills for the UN in Uganda, the EFF, and Students for Free Culture, and is a Developer in Debian. Until recently, he engineered software and scalability at Creative Commons in San Francisco; today, he works at OpenHatch as its project lead.

Sessions

11:30am Wednesday, 07/18/2012
Open Source Community Growth as a User Experience Problem
Community
 Location: D138
Tags: diversity, usability, newbies
Asheesh Laroia (OpenHatch), Karen Rustad (OpenHatch)
Average rating: ****.
(4.25, 8 ratings)
In your open source project's community, some people contribute. Most people don't. By analyzing the typical open source project's on-ramp for new contributors through the lens of user experience design, we provide practical tips to make any project more approachable and that diversify the community. Read more.

Sponsors

For information on exhibition and sponsorship opportunities at the conference, contact Sharon Cordesse at (707) 827-7065 or scordesse@oreilly.com.

Download the OSCON Sponsor/Exhibitor Prospectus.

View a complete list of OSCON contacts