What makes us good citizens in society? How does that compare with citizenship in an open-source community? Here are some insights into what we can get being good citizens of an open-source project and what we all as a collective gain.

1. Open Source Citizenship:
What you get and what we gain!

2. Citizenship
is based on
Rights

3. GPLv2 (or later)
4 Freedoms of GPL

4. 0. Freedom to Run
1. Freedom to Study
2. Freedom to Copy and Share
3. Freedom to Modify

5. Being a good citizen
Participate
Contribute

6. Be trusted & reliable
- Show up
- Show up consistently

7. But most importantly
Disagree and then Commit

8. What do I get?

9. Impact

10. Growth

11. Training / Support

12. What you might not get right away or
ever
- Commit-level access
- Complete autonomy

13. And what we all gain?

14. With many eyes all bugs are shallow
- Linus Torvald

15. But WordPress is not just about the
code!

16. over 55,000 plugins.
thousands of themes
And 143 volunteer run WordCamps
and 700 cities with a meetup groups

17. Resources
- https://ma.tt/2014/01/four-freedoms/
- https://make.wordpress.org/community/2019/05/31/the-4-
gets-in-wordpress-community-organizing/
- https://hugh.blog/2019/03/15/becoming-a-good-open-sour
ce-citizen/

18. Questions?
Aditya Kane
@adityakane
https://make.wordpress.org/community