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Updated the interview with Jason Grout to include his insights on open source contributions and the Jupyter project.
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fantastic blog post! Please see our comments and suggestions, and let us know if there are any questions!
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| Khue and Daniel: “What advice would you give to someone who wants to start contributing to open source?” | ||
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remove this return as formatting is inconsistent
| Khue and Daniel: “How did you get into open source/your current project and motivation for it?” | ||
| Jason: “It was my background studying Math and Computer Science that sparked my interest in programming. My first touch with open source was through SageMath, working with their database of mathematical objects. From there, I pivoted to Jupyter Notebook. While at Sage, we used Jupyter in our day-to-day operations frequently. One day I noticed a small bug in the system. Because Jupyter is open source and accepts suggestions from everybody, I was able to make a one-line CSS modification that improved their system. As time went on, I gave more feedback on their changes and updates,I made it a goal to give at least one piece of feedback for each Jupyter release. Eventually, I guess I contributed so much that they wanted me to do what I was doing, but full-time. It was really rewarding going from a small contributor to a core developer on the project now.” | ||
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| Jason: “Overall, the biggest motivation for me is to make improvements for users and by building tools that are accessible and useful to the community.” |
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include this in the paragraph above for flow
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| From teaching and industry to building tools used by millions, Jason Grout's journey through open source reflects BIDS's commitment to making tools accessible for everyone. Now working on Jupyter Notebook, Jason bridges the worlds of academia, industry, and open source community to help every learner to gradually adapt to coding through interactive, accessible tools. |
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great intro, helps position the reader on who Jason is and includes BIDS mission
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Maybe add an intro on who Khue and Daniel are-- students? graduate undergraduate? may help with connecting to students reading the article
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| Jason: “Start small. If you're already a user of a tool like Jupyter and you find any part of it annoying, even something tiny, you actually can fix it by being a contributor. We have a graph that shows a few people with lots of contributions, along with many people having only a few contributions. That's the encouraging part! It demonstrates that open source is truly user-friendly: everyone can contribute to the products they use, even if it's just fixing one small annoyance. You don't have to become a core maintainer or commit to years of contributions. You can be one of those people who fixes the one thing that bothers them and moves on. That single contribution still makes Jupyter better for millions of users. So if you're using a tool and thinking, "This one thing is annoying," don't just accept it, fix it! That's how you start contributing to open source.” And you know what’s the best part, you can be that person today!” |
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maybe add a closing paragraph to summarize and connect with the audience
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| From teaching and industry to building tools used by millions, Jason Grout's journey through open source reflects BIDS's commitment to making tools accessible for everyone. Now working on Jupyter Notebook, Jason bridges the worlds of academia, industry, and open source community to help every learner to gradually adapt to coding through interactive, accessible tools. | ||
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possible to add a transition here. Example: We sat down with Jason Grout to talk more about his work...
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Updated the interview with Jason Grout to include his insights on open source contributions and the Jupyter project.