# Accidental Leadership in Open Source

**URL:** <https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/accidental-leadership-in-open-source/457>\
**Category:** 📚 Reading Group\
**Created:** [August 27, 2020, 5:07pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/accidental-leadership-in-open-source/457 "2020-08-27T17:07:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Samson\_Goddy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sustainoss.org/samson_goddy/32/36_2.png) [@Samson\_Goddy](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/Samson_Goddy)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 5:07pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/accidental-leadership-in-open-source/457/1 "2020-08-27T17:07:05Z")

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Huge shout out to Josh Simmons on the “Accidental Leadership” topic at Sustain Brussels.

How I became an Accidental Leader and how I learned to focus on things that I care about, including giving my all, concentrating on building something iconic, and showcasing the many ways you can contribute to open source software(OSS).

Here is an article: [https://dev.to/samsongoddy/accidental-leadership-in-open-source-2b9a](https://dev.to/samsongoddy/accidental-leadership-in-open-source-2b9a)

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**Author:** ![jwheel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sustainoss.org/jwheel/32/1362_2.png) [@jwheel](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/jwheel)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 6:55pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/accidental-leadership-in-open-source/457/2 "2020-08-27T18:55:03Z")

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@Samson_Goddy Your post was awesome to read. And super relatable. I think we are somewhere near the same age. 😀

I happened to come across the [Scalable Onboarding](https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Engagement/initiatives/scalable-onboarding) initiative you are involved with in the GNOME Community. I said hi in the GNOME Rocket.chat. I think there are lots of overlaps between themes of your post and what that team is working on!