Make Something Great: Become an Open Source Contributor

Learn from a Bootstrap team member how you can take your career to the next level.

During this presentation, you will learn how you can begin a career in the open source world, starting from scratch until becoming a core committee of some of the biggest projects in the world.

You will learn:

How to find your community;
What tools do you need to know;
How to take your first steps;
What are the different ways in which you can participate;
How to turn your hobby into your future work.
Once you know the secrets of the open source world, your career will skyrocket!

Transcript

1. Open Source @andresgalante
2. Hallo!
5. OPEN SOURCE STORIES 1
9. Andrés Galante @andresgalante andresgalante.com Bootstrap
10. OPEN SOURCE NEEDS YOU! 2
11. OPEN SOURCE NEEDS YOU 2 Open source is a community
12. Developers 2 OPEN SOURCE NEEDS YOU
13. “Diversity is what can take Open Source from where it is to where it could be” Una Kravets, Open Source Design OPEN SOURCE NEEDS YOU 2
14. Designers OPEN SOURCE NEEDS YOU 2
15. Writers 2 OPEN SOURCE NEEDS YOU
16. 2 OPEN SOURCE NEEDS YOU
17. 2 Without communication there is no community. OPEN SOURCE NEEDS YOU
18. Developers (that don’t want to write code) 2 OPEN SOURCE NEEDS YOU
19. WORKING FOR FREE 3
20. Open source
21. Networking WORKING FOR FREE 3
22. Brian Goetz Dan Abramov James Gosling Gavin King Una Kravets Doug Lea Martin Odersky Martin Thompson … y muchos otros! 3 WORKING FOR FREE
23. Show what you know 3 WORKING FOR FREE
24. Bleeding edge 3 WORKING FOR FREE
25. …it’s addictive! 3 WORKING FOR FREE
27. FINDING YOUR COMMUNITY 4
28. FINDING YOUR COMMUNITY 4
29. https://github.com/explore
30. https://www.codetriage.com/
31. Respect 4 1 FINDING YOUR COMMUNITY
32. Communication 4 2 FINDING YOUR COMMUNITY
33. Trust 4 3 FINDING YOUR COMMUNITY
34. THE TOOLS 5
35. The Command line THE TOOLS 5
37. 5 THE TOOLS
38. 5 THE TOOLS
39. https://try.github.io/
40. Communication channels 5 THE TOOLS
41. FIRST STEPS 6
42. Start with small contributions! 6 FIRST STEPS
43. good first issue help wanted 6 FIRST STEPS
44. hacktoberfest!
45. Administrative tasks Review issues and PR, reply to forums and chats. 6 FIRST STEPS
47. LEVELING UP 7
48. LEVELING UP 7 DEMO
49. … but I don’t have time!
50. Open source is waiting for you
51. Muchas Gracias ❤ @andresgalante
52. @andresgalante