Cultivating A Healthy Open Source Community - CUSEC 2020
Channel: Veloren
Date: 19/06/2020

Discord: https://discord.gg/kG85dbt
Blog and Download : https://veloren.net/


Veloren is an open source multiplayer game written in Rust, with aesthetics similar to Minecraft. It has contributors from all around the world. Since it is an open source project, it needs strong and healthy development practices. As the meta lead for the project, Forest works to proactively improve many different parts of this process. This talk will go over Veloren's techniques that will work for any project, as well as some that are more unique. Some topics include release cycles, decentralized design, public outreach, and talent acquisition.

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Forest is a student who enjoys making games and running security competitions. He co-leads Hack All The Things and the Lame Jam. He is the meta lead on the Veloren project, in which he focuses on CI and community development. He also writes a weekly dev blog that highlights the project's progress. On the side, he is a 4th-year student enjoying his 5th year at Carleton University. He is studying computer science with honours in game development. He is the CTO of Timsle and works out of the Impact Hub Ottawa. Forest has done research in the Graphics, Images and Games Lab at Carleton. His research focuses are image processing and web security. This will be his 4th year at CUSEC! Be sure to catch him at the board game night. If you want to discuss other topics such as Rust, CI/CD, security, game development, or anything in between, he's sure to want to chat!