apidays LIVE JAKARTA - Connecting the Digital Stack How to build a community around your Open Source project Uli Hitzel, Catalyst at Axway

1. 2020
Uli Hitzel
Developer Advocate
Axway
From Code To
Community:
How Do You Run An
Open Source Project?

2. How do you run
an Open Source
Project?

3. 1. Take some
Source Code
2. Dump in on
GitHub
3. Done!

4. /u1i/slides
/in/uhitzel
Developer Advocate

5. https://apigeek.net

6. ● Run test cases
on API
endpoints
● Test cases are
defined in YAML
files
● majime can
generate test
cases from
Swagger specs

7. Run Test Cases against Endpoints

8. JSON Output Also Can!

9. Test Cases Defined In YAML

10. Generate Test Cases from Swagger
majime -g
https://petstore.swagger
.io/v2/swagger.json

11. Generate Test Cases from Swagger

12. Let’s
Try It
Out!
https://github.com/u1i/majime-exercise

15. How do you run
an Open Source
Project?

16. Open Source
Community
powered
Innovation

17. People will see my
Code
People will use my
Stuff
Open Source

18. ● Code
● Documentation &
Translation
● Using it
○ Opening Tickets
○ Spreading the Word
Contribute

19. ● You get inspired & grow
● Make new connections
● Give back to the
Community
● It’s rewarding & fun
Why do it?

20. You’re on the ‘App Store’!

23. How do you run
an Open Source
Project?

24. /Cheukting
You’ll have to be:
A Developer
+ Marketing Person
+ Project Manager

25. I’m probably here

26. Solve a real Problem
Build something
you’re using
yourself
1

27. Turn it into a
‘Living Thing’
● GitHub
● Markdown
● Issues, Versions, Releases
● Contributions & Pull Requests
2

28. Market it! 3
● Branding: Naming, Logo
● Superb Documentation
● Great ‘First 20 Minutes’
Experience
● Promote it

30. Bambleweeny
● Lightweight HTTP/REST based
Key-Value Store & Message Broker
● Multi-Tenancy → Manage Identities,
Access & Quotas
● Fast, Easy to Use & Well-Documented
● Written in Python, using Redis,
deployable in a tiny Container

31. Use Case: Fast
Prototyping

32. Use Case: POCs
& API Mocking

33. Easy to Run
docker run -d -P
u1ih/bambleweeny

34. Python Client Library & CLI

35. Get involved
/u1i
● Try out Majime or
Bambleweeny!
● Help make it better → open
GitHub issues for bugs & new
features
● Spread the Word!