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paulproteus
September 24, 2012
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How open source communities communicate
A talk I delivered to Sameer Verma's San Francisco State University class
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Transcript
How open source communities communicate Asheesh Laroia
[email protected]
(Goals of this talk)
(about me and OpenHatch)
Part I. Discovering Linux, and my first contribution
[paulproteus@host] $
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:(){ :|:&};:
Don't panic
"Please help me recover my data. I will perform any
test or run any program you recommend...."
“That reminds me...”
Replaying journal.. 0 transactions replayed Checking S+tree.. Bad root block
4294967295. (--rebuild-tree did not complete) ok Checking Semantic tree... check_semantic_tree: no root directory found Aborted
A new fsck!
What worked about my email • Post to the right
mailing list • I read the docs • Provided anything that looked relevant • Patience
Am I a contributor yet?
Reflection: 80% of success is showing up
Part II. Xboxes and IRC
Xbox
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[19:35:09] <t4nk> hello? [19:35:21] <t4nk> Xbox linx people :D [19:35:44]
<t4nk> I need a bit of help. How can I boot into single user mode on the xbox- original?
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00:57 -!- Arti has joined #xbox-linux 00:57 <Arti> hi 00:57
<catfish> hi 00:57 * paulproteus sticks his head up 00:59 <Arti> im on my cell 00:59 <Arti> :-)
00:58 <catfish> !google video Linux Zoran 00:58 <@xbox-logger> http://www.cicese.mx/~mirsev /Linux/DC10plus/
[09:59:30] --> mib_0x1ww2 has joined #xbox-linux [09:59:45] <mib_0x1ww2> http://cbe005.chat.mibbit.com/? server=irc.genevairc.net&channe
l=%23choosinghats. Christian chat channel! visit when able! [09:59:47] <-- mib_0x1ww2 has left #xbox-linux
01:33 <catfish> what hapopens if u tell it to spell
quit? 01:34 <catfish> with the /
01:34 <paulproteus> !spell "/quit" 01:34 <paulproteus> !spell yourr 01:34 <@xbox-logger>
your
01:34 <paulproteus> ! spell /yourr 01:34 <@xbox-logger> /your
01:34 <paulproteus> ! spell /quitt 01:34 <@xbox-logger> /quit 01:34 <paulproteus>
Hmm.
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<most> btw, i think we can officially link to the
wiki on the website now, it has proven to be good :-)
Part III. User groups and bug trackers
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“The best place for us to have a meeting... would
be a Western suburb of Detroit.”
“We also don't need to be drunk within 10 minutes,
maybe 30.”
(Enhance a bug report.)
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“Very few things are as tempting as a link to
the problem.” sscce.org
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Part IV. Fake it 'til you make it
Use this stuff yourself
(It took me five years to submit a patch)
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Hey Asheesh -- sorry we missed this the first time...
the patch didn't go through... Could you try to get an svn co, apply your patch, and then submit an 'svn diff' ? Thanks! JDH
OK, it's in -- thanks! JDH
Part 5. A tour of ways to contribute
make.wordpress.org/ polyglots/ libreoffice.org/ get-involved/ ux-visual-designers/
Part VI. Workshop info!
Part VII. (Extras) zoph, fester2webdav, debian key fail
Thanks! Sign up + info: http://smarturl.it/ opensource