Rise of Open Source

Navigating and Contributing to the Open Source Community @ Big Data Toronto 2016

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1. Rise of Open Source Navigating & Contributing to the Open Source Community Ahmad Nassri @ Big Data Toronto 2016 #BigDataTO AhmadNassri.com
2. Hai! Entrepreneur, Hacker, Developer Open Source Advocate & Dog Lover @AhmadNassri http://ahmad.codes VP of Engineering at Mashape, Founder at Tech Masters, Mentor at Node School Toronto, Director at Full Stack Toronto, Director at Open API Initiative, Editor at The RESTful Web.
6. Where to Start?
7. Open Source Principles Quality First Documentation Test Everything Open Discussion Transparency Asynchronicity Democracy
8. Quality First “Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.” ― Martin Golding, Code For The Maintainer
9. Document ALL The Things! “Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing..” ― Dick Brandon
10. Open Discussions “Be your own worst critic. When things go wrong it's tempting to shift the blame. Don't. Accept responsibility. People will appreciate it, and you will find out what you're capable of.” ― Paul Arden
11. Test Everything “Test-design thinking can discover and eliminate bugs at every stage in the creation of software, from conception to specification, to design, coding and the rest.” ― Boris Beizer
12. Be Transparent “Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.” ― John Gerzema
13. Life is asynchronous You can automate & synchronize machines, but you cannot synchronize nor automate humans! ― me, Just now.
14. Embrace Democracy Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education. ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
15. THANK YOU