Niklas Merz NiklasMerz

From coding fixes to building communities: My Open Source journey

My name is Niklas Merz and I first got into Open Source to scratch my own itch. It started with tinkering on my own little projects and some small contributions to Open Source projects I used for my personal and professional work. Over the years, I shifted from contributing code to taking on some community work. I no longer use that project in my day job, but I still like to give something back and help it move forward.

Let’s start at the beginning. Like many others I did smaller documentation and code fixes because I used Open Source projects for my work. At some point during my apprenticeship I got the opportunity to work on a mobile app built with web technologies and this led me down a path to joining a project management committee (PMC) of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) project Cordova. The ASF has the official motto of "Community over Code" and after some years in this space I can relate to this more than ever.

Everybody finds

Session description

Session goal

Identify stakeholders that are non browser

Cordova User Survey Questions

Users

Have you worked on an app using Apache Cordova in the past 6 months

[ ] Yes

[ ] No

Open Source: Zeit und Geld richtig investieren

Open Source ist heute aus der Softwareentwicklung nicht mehr wegzudenken. Mit Open Source Tools und Bibliotheken kann man oft schneller und besser Projekte umsetzen. Man begibt sich aber auch in eine gewisse Abhängigkeit und die Open Source Welt lebt davon, dass Nutzer auch etwas zurückgeben. Ich habe viele Jahre an einem Projekt gearbeit, das sehr stark von einem Open Source Tool abhängig ist und wurde so selbst Teil dieser Community.

Deshalb möchte Ich euch ein paar praktische Tipps und persönliche Erfahrungen mitgeben, damit ihr ein besseres Gefühl über eure Open Source Nutzung bekommt und eure Projekte besser unterstützen könnt.

Name	Platforms	Description	Features	Limitations	UX flexibility	Usage Example
Android Webview	Android	Default WebView implementation on Android	Rich API with JS and CSS interaction, Tie WebView and native APIs together	Features equal to current Chrime but some Web APIs are not supported	Allows you to mix native content with the WebView and to resize it	Hybrid Frameworks (Cordova, Capacitor)
Custom Tabs	Android	API for opening browser-like WebViews on Android	Browser navigation and conveniance features like password fill	App has no access to Web content	Covers the entire application with some minimal top bar customization	Link preview in social media apps
SFSafariViewController	iOS, iPadOS	API for opening browser-like WebViews on iOS	Browser navigation and conveniance features like password fill	App has no access to Web content	Covers the entire application

name	about	title	labels	assignees
Use case & issue template	Describe this issue template's purpose here.

	var budget = new Budget({name: "My car budget", interval: "yearly"});
	var account = Accounts.get("MYGIROIBAN");

	const insuranceQuery = new TransactionsQuery();
	insuranceQuery.subject.contains("Insurance Payment Car");
	//insuranceQuery.subject.regex(..
	insuranceQuery.iban.equals("DE....")

	const insuranceTransactions = account.query(insuranceQuery);
	budget.add("Insurance", insuranceTransactions);

	apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
	kind: Deployment
	metadata:
	labels:
	app: myproject
	name: myproject
	namespace: default
	spec:
	progressDeadlineSeconds: 600
	replicas: 1