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sarah rainsberger rainsberger ca skip to content rainsberger ca search ctrl k cancel github mastodon bluesky discord twitter youtube rss email blog select theme dark light auto blog hobbies birding choir tech gear photography guides contribute to open source docs via edit this page on github get a public link for sharing google photos image featured blog posts 50 docs tips in 50 days stop writing docs start helping the value of non code contributions to open source astro s community driven docs docs tips overview tip 1 if one does not already exist tip 2 put the condition first tip 3 repetition is a pedagogical tool tip 4 make headings tip 5 don t let the easy edit distract you tip 6 new gets old fast tip 7 title your code blocks tip 8 don t forget tip 9 i dislike like tip 10 headings need to work alone tip 11 don t regret what could have been tip 12 cool story bro tip 13 inadvertently inappropriate tip 14 this post includes advice tip 15 don t doc when you can fix tip 16 read this tip if you want to tip 17 go with the flow tip 18 twist then pull tip 19 be the change you want to see tip 20 add this code tip 21 prepare to be assimilated tip 22 and then tip 23 is not was tip 24 mise en place tip 25 just follow this one simple tip tip 26 use this tip 27 writing that clicks tip 28 this time tip 29 seen and not heard tip 30 just a link in your chain tip 31 as not shown here tip 32 defining the obvious tip 33 what s your problem tip 34 show what to do tip 35 link in bio tip 36 not my problem tip 37 right words wrong place tip 38 this and that tip 39 smarty pants tip 40 make my day tip 41 if you please tip 42 knock knock who s there tip 43 what s in a name tip 44 we did it tip 45 and another thing tip 46 it s not a bug it s a feature tip 47 ch ch ch ch changes tip 48 do it yourself tip 49 nwtwwhb tip 50 tip your server github mastodon bluesky discord twitter youtube rss email blog select theme dark light auto on this page overview hobbies and interests conference bio talks appearances conference talks interviews appearances open source origin story current adventures personal on this page overview hobbies and interests conference bio talks appearances conference talks interviews appearances open source origin story current adventures personal sarah rainsberger creates and solves problems sometimes in that order 50 docs tips in 50 days sarah photographs birds watches baseball sings in choirs and contributes to open source projects hobbies and interests section titled hobbies and interests nature photography taking photos of birds and other nature subjects photostream on flickr sbirb using and building birding tools to enrich my own birding experience vocal music singing choral and a cappella music while managing choir tech in community choirs and ensembles high tech low alto cloud based development coding entirely in the cloud with no local dev environment on a chromebook and android tablet conference bio section titled conference bio sarah rainsberger has years of experience leading a large open source software documentation project with several maintainers and over 1000 community contributors she brings a background in high school mathematics education academic counseling and curriculum development to her current technical writing and open source community building in her spare time she photographs birds talks appearances section titled talks appearances talks and conversations about contributions to open source projects beyond code docs community building and docs as community building youtube playlist of talks conference talks section titled conference talks making meaningful open source contributions viteconf 2025 docs as community building viteconf 2024 stop writing docs start helping frontend nation 2024 one year of starlight astro s community built documentation theme astro together 2024 making effective contributions to open source documentation distribute aid open source explorers 2024 stop writing docs start helping viteconf 2023 happy contributors high standards pick two balancing quality and community in open source documentation write the docs australia 2022 learning in the browser reactconf 2021 jamstack in the browser lightning talk thejam dev 2022 interviews appearances section titled interviews appearances scrimba town hall chat with sarah rainsberger from scrimba student to astro core maintainer ️ sustainoss podcast episode 272 maintainer month 2025 with sarah rainsberger of astro github open source friday 2025 astro docs ️ kelvin omereshone s twitter space jan 2023 making documentation developers love listen on youtube listen on spotify ️ github readme podcast episode 31 bridging code and community github readme project june 2023 non code contributions are the secret to open source success klint finley ️ hanselminutes podcast september 2023 episode 911 documentation as a path to open source viteconf 2023 community and contributors panel sarah rainsberger brittney postma anthony fu and matias capeletto with this dot labs tracy lee as host discuss how to get involved in open source and foster healthier communities open source section titled open source i am a core maintainer for astro an open source web framework i also write and speak about managing and maintaining community driven open source documentation origin story section titled origin story i am a former math teacher tutor who started to learned to code in 2018 because i inherited a crappy website i volunteered to maintain for my community choir and only knew enough html to be dangerous learning web dev section titled learning web dev i started taking online html css then eventually javascript and react courses through scrimba after i had taken all their boot camp courses i was ready to convert my personal jekyll blog to a javascript framework where i could actually build from the ground up and understand every file in my repo choosing a tech stack section titled choosing a tech stack that s when i discovered astro which was very very new and i had to make a choice go with gatsby which had a big community and tons of resources since i was very new to web dev jamstack in general or this new thing that no one had ever heard of but people were just starting to talk about which had a very small documentation site but an active friendly welcoming discord i figured gatsby was the safer bet but the astro community won me over getting involved in the community section titled getting involved in the community being one of the first people to use astro and being there as even some of the earliest features were being actively developed i may not have known very much about software development but i knew a lot about how astro worked i found that as new even very experienced devs came into the discord asking for help with their projects i was able to help them because of my familiarity with astro i spent hours every day in support threads and testing out every feature and providing feedback although i was much more involved in how astro worked and sharing that knowledge with our community rather than how it was built eventually i became familiar enough with some aspects of the project code that i could contribute small fixes or improvements directly becoming a maintainer section titled becoming a maintainer i was invited to be a maintainer of the project because of my mostly non code contributions and eventually was asked to first contribute as a technical writer who s using their english degree now eh and then eventually came to lead the entire documentation project which is itself an astro starlight website i became a core maintainer with significant responsibilities in several aspects of maintaining this open source project which in fact requires a lot more than code to function from 2022 2026 i led a team responsible for documentation our public facing websites community support as well as some sustainability projects championing contributions beyond code section titled championing contributions beyond code i share these experiences about writing and maintaining documentation contributions to open source beyond code community building and all three using documentation as community building for your open source project in fact many of astro s contributors and maintainers were first onboarded as docs contributors including translators their familiarity with astro through careful docs contributions and translators have to understand what you ve written backwards and forwards to be able to express it in another language often gave them confidence to then begin making code contributions because they understood how astro worked astro docs is a great place to contribute even if it s your very first contribution to open source and this is an initiative i have championed in my capacity as a community leader current adventures section titled current adventures i am still a core maintainer at astro but am also involved with other open source projects such as astrolicious expresssive code and npmx personal section titled personal in my past life in toronto i helped hundreds of students through high school university as a private tutor teacher academic advisor school administrator and guidance university admissions counsellor i used several stylus based tablet pcs for taking making digital math notes long before tablets were a thing i was also an active volunteer in the ontario homeschooling and alternative edudation communities writing advising and speaking at conferences now from our island waterfront home in atlantic canada i enjoy bird photography on our scenic boardwalk and am involved with local community choirs other personal interests include a good cappuccino a new to me gin watching toronto blue jays baseball on pvr delay so we can skip commercials no spoilers stylus based gadgets allthesamsung plus many niche devices you ve probably never heard of and natural disaster movies where the rogue atmospheric physicist saves the day my home is currently summerside pei canada epekwitk though i will always be from toronto my actual physical location could be anywhere in the world as a constant travel companion to my loving husband joe with whom the epic oshawa vs brampton battle is ongoing last updated mar 20 2026 built with starlight 2021 2026 sarah rainsberger except where otherwise noted and or quoting external sources the content of this site is licensed under cc by nc sa 4 0 astro webrings