Show Your Work & Share Your Toys

[mirisuzanne]

The web is littered with Ikea-style CSS frameworks and opinionated lowest-common-denominator web design tools. But pre-processors like Sass have opened the door for more flexible toolkits, and a thriving open-source community. You don't need to be a "ninja" with 3 million followers and your own clearfix to contribute. You don't even need a clever new idea — just a willingness to share, interact, and learn. Showing and sharing can help your code and your career.

We'll talk about the complete process of building and maintaining open-source Sass extensions. From concept to documentation, testing, licensing, releasing, and contributing to other projects.

[mirisuzanne]

This is heavily based on my own experience releasing a very rough draft of Susy on the first day I ever encountered Sass or Github. The code was bad, and the documentation was worse — but open-source, community iteration is a powerful thing. I'll show you what I did wrong, and how I learned to do it better.