What makes a good open source contributing guide? Highlights and best practices from research. From an Open Source Show and Tell talk in San Francisco, April 22 2016. Template referenced in the talk can be found here: https://github.com/nayafia/contributing-template FOOTNOTES Slides 3 and 4: Based on GitHub Search conducted Apr 18 2016. Thanks Brandon Keepers (@bkeepers) for helping with this! Slides 5 and 6: https://peerj.com/preprints/1233.pdf Slides 7 and 8: Current as of Apr 18 2016 Slide 20: http://read-the-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/contribute.html Slide 21: https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/wiki/Contributing Slide 22: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/contributing/new-contributors/#guidelines Slide 23: https://github.com/angular/material/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#-git-commit-guidelines Slide 24: https://github.com/celery/celery/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.rst#security