In this talk, Leslie Hawthorn will explore some tips for making your FLOSS project and community most welcoming for new contributors. Drawing on lessons learned during the past three years as the Community Manager for Google Summer of Code, Leslie will explore topics including how to introduce newbies to your project\'s culture, how to involve contributors who do not write code, ways to maintain effective communication and how to help your friends choose the right project(s) when getting started.

Leslie Hawthorn is a Program Manager for Google’s Open Source Programs Office, where she’s the Community Manager for the Google Summer of Code program. She also conceived and managed the Google Highly Open Participation Contest, the world’s first global initiative to get pre-university students involved in all aspects of Open Source software development. Leslie serves on the Advisory Board of the GNOME Foundation and the Open Source Business Resource, as well as the Steering Committee for the Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software Project. Her personal website is http://www.hawthornlandings.org or you can find her on identi.ca (@lh) and Twitter (@lhawthorn).