Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026

When you approach your public code repositories with teaching as the primary goal -- designing them specifically to help others learn -- you transform simple code sharing or tech blogging into open-source teaching.

Discover how documenting your technical learning journey through small, focused open-source projects can accelerate your learning, establish your expertise, and create value for both the open-source community and enterprise development teams.

Examples of my adventures in open-source teaching include:

* A 32-line working web application, and its 41-line fork that, in 9 lines, adds automated unit tests.
* A fully-CI/CD-tested OpenTofu module in less than 100 lines of code.

In this session, you'll learn practical strategies for right-sizing demo repos, choosing the right platforms for sharing, and capturing the unique value of your "beginner's mind" to help others learn.