Ten simple rules for helping newcomers become contributors to open projects

• Dan Sholler ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dan Sholler, Igor Steinmacher, Denae Ford, Mara Averick, Mike Hoye, Greg Wilson

  Affiliation Berkeley Institute for Data Science, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2517-4317

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• Igor Steinmacher ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dan Sholler, Igor Steinmacher, Denae Ford, Mara Averick, Mike Hoye, Greg Wilson

  Affiliation School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

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• Denae Ford ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dan Sholler, Igor Steinmacher, Denae Ford, Mara Averick, Mike Hoye, Greg Wilson

  Affiliation Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0654-4335

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• Mara Averick ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dan Sholler, Igor Steinmacher, Denae Ford, Mara Averick, Mike Hoye, Greg Wilson

  Affiliation RStudio, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Mike Hoye ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dan Sholler, Igor Steinmacher, Denae Ford, Mara Averick, Mike Hoye, Greg Wilson

  Affiliation Mozilla Corporation, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Greg Wilson

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dan Sholler, Igor Steinmacher, Denae Ford, Mara Averick, Mike Hoye, Greg Wilson

  * E-mail: greg.wilson@rstudio.com

  Affiliation RStudio, Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8659-8979

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