Episode 130: OSCA, Docs, and Burnout with Anita Ihuman and Atinuke Oluwabamikemi Kayode (Bami)

Guest Anita Ihuman | Atinuke Oluwabamikemi Kayode Panelists Richard
Littauer Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where
we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today,
we’ll be talking to two guests who are a part of the Open Source
Community Africa (OSCA), which has a conference every year or so in
Nigeria, where a lot of people come together. We’ve invited people
who facilitated workshops at this event to talk about what they
facilitated, what they’re interested in as far as sustaining open
source, and to share their personal story. Our first guest is Anita
Ihuman, who’s a Developer, an Advocate for open source, and an open
source contributor. We also have Atinuke Oluwabamikemi Kayode
(Bami), who’s a Python Developer as part of OSCA, a Community
Manager at Tunga and Layer5, and she helped facilitate a workshop
on Burnout and Mental Health at the last Sustain event. Go ahead
and download this episode now to find out much more! Anita:
[00:02:23] Anita shares her story how she got involved with open
source and how she got to where she is today. [00:06:05] At OSCA,
Anita was asked to facilitate the open source documentation
workshop as part of the Sustain group, and she fills us in on how
it went and how many people were at the workshop with her.
[00:08:25] Anita wrote a blog explaining ten steps for the approach
people can take to build better documentation, and she highlights a
few of them. [00:13:36] We hear how engineers can get help to get
better at documentation. [00:14:42] At the end of the blog post,
Anita talked about how we can sustain open source communities and
projects through documentation, and she shares her thoughts on the
three main points. [00:17:20] Find out what’s next for Anita and
where you can find her online. Bami: [00:20:18] Bami shares what
she does as a Community Manager at Tunga and Layer5. [00:21:56] We
hear how Bami ended up at OSCA and how she ended up in the Sustain
track as the facilitator for this session talking about burnout.
[00:25:53] Find out how the role of self-awareness plays in
burnout, and the role that companies in the ecosystem play in
stopping burnout for maintainers and developers. [00:32:19] Bami
tells us about setting boundaries which are super important.
[00:35:01] Find out where you can follow Bami on the internet and
she shares advice on the importance of taking time for yourself and
communicating to others. Quotes Anita: [00:06:21] “I was able to
attend and learn so much, and it made me realize that I could
actually teach.” [00:06:53] “Do you actually read documentation for
a project? And I found that so many people don’t. And the reason is
that it’s either out of date or it’s not informative enough.”
[00:15:02] “[We should] put together a standard for documentation
for every open source project.” Bami: [00:27:23] “We have to rest
at some point and it’s okay to have that rest.” [00:31:11] “If the
community is not healthy, contributors will not come back.”
[00:31:19] “How do you want to sustain open source software if the
communities are not healthy? So, it is important that organizations
take effort in helping, in creating awareness of how to handle
mental health because we know mental health burnout is inevitable.”
Links SustainOSS (https://sustainoss.org/) SustainOSS Twitter
(https://twitter.com/SustainOSS?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor)
SustainOSS Discourse (https://discourse.sustainoss.org/)
podcast@sustainoss.org (mailto:podcast@sustainoss.org) Anita Ihuman
Twitter (https://mobile.twitter.com/anita_ihuman) Anita Ihuman
LinkedIn (https://ng.linkedin.com/in/anita-ihuman) Anita Ihuman
website (https://anitaihuman.dev/) Open Source Community
Africa-Sustain Africa 2022 Community Report
(https://blog.oscafrica.org/sustain-africa-2022-community-report)
Scalable Onboarding
(https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Engagement/initiatives/scalable-onboarding)
Let’s Talk Docs Podcast (https://ltd-podcast.sustainoss.org/)
justindorfman@gmail.com (mailto:justindorfman@gmail.com) Atinuke
Oluwabamikemi Twitter (https://twitter.com/oluwabamikemi) Atinuke
Oluwabamikemi Kayode LinkedIn
(https://ng.linkedin.com/in/atinuke-oluwabamikemi-kayode-5b838b1b7)
Atinuke Oluwabamikemi Kayode website (https://iambami.dev/) CHAOSS
(https://chaoss.community/) Tunga (https://tunga.io/) Layer5
(https://layer5.io/) OSCA Report: Burnout and Mental Health
(https://blog.oscafrica.org/sustain-africa-2022-community-report#heading-6-burnout-and-mental-health)
Credits Produced by Richard Littauer (https://www.burntfen.com/)
Edited by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound
(https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Show notes by DeAnn Bahr
Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Special Guests:
Anita Ihuman and Atinuke Oluwabamikemi Kayode.