Design, software, and open source

01/19/18 • 70 min

Lauren McCarthy joined Nadia and Mikeal to discuss her work on p5.js, contributions and culture, her before and after take on open source, her path to becoming a maintainer, how p5.js gets new contributors, how they keep them around, and why design isn’t better represented in open source.

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Featuring:

Lauren McCarthy – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Nadia Eghbal – Twitter, GitHub
Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

p5.js

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

01/19/18 • 70 min

Request For Commits - Design, software, and open source

Transcript

Transcript for Request For Commits #19 Nadia Eghbal:

So before we get into p5.js, you have a pretty interesting background in terms of how you got into open source in the first place. Can you tell us a little bit about that?

Lauren McCarthy:

Yeah, I guess I have some background in computer science - or I did, just like undergrad, but I really moved more into an arts space after that. But I was doing art using software, so I used a lot of open source tools, so

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