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# Talk

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00:00 Introduction
00:47 What is a free software maintainer?
02:19 What do I do as the Org maintainer?
03:24 Do you see a pattern here?
04:18 What a free software maintainer is or should be
05:03 Summary
05:26 ACDC: Asynchronous Collective Distributed Care
06:28 How can you help Emacs maintainers?
06:37 Become a maintainer for your own project, however small
06:56 Volunteer as a contributor steward for another project
07:10 Learn how to teach
07:25 Test and enhance the project's contribution process
07:35 Take care of the project's calls for help
07:52 Encourage users from outside the project to contribute to the core forum
08:08 Let the core forum know about what happens in this outside world
08:16 Propose your help for non-code tasks
08:26 If you expect someone else to fix your bug, try fixing someone else's bug first
08:42 Don't expect the maintainer to be a hotline
08:49 Complete this list
08:57 Yes, this is hard
09:35 Thanks

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# Q&A

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