Tell Your Open Source Story - Make a Zine - Sept 6 edition

[MarsBarLee]

Zaar zine from yesterday's session!

Open source has exciting stories worth telling- how APIs are adopted, how a 2.0 release affects downstream projects and the passion that drives all this.

But it can be difficult to tell these stories. We may not be used to telling our stories, and the intricacies of open source development may be difficult to explain to a more generalist audience.

As shared in my Lightning Talk, my approach is to tell our stories through comics. The "How to Contribute To NumPy" comics follows riveting story of three grad students as they learn not only how to use NumPy in their research, but also the emotional ups and downs!

Session Notes

At this Unconference session., let's try telling our stories. Bounce off story ideas, sketch, write a script. Pens, paper, and other tactile tools will be provided. Try making your own zine for your open source projects!

Newcomer friendly- no prior drawing or graphic design skills required!

Other topics we can talk about:

• How does do stories fit into existing documentation and the Diátaxis framework of documentaiton?
• How do we use stories in outreach and education of open source?

The Diátaxis framework, for reference:

If selected, would prefer the 4:40-5:30pm session