A Path Towards Open Source Contributions

Today Open Source is ubiquitous and comprises nearly 80% – 90% of the code in a “typical” application. Based on GitHub’s 2019 Octoverse, the average project is built on ~180 open source packages of dependencies.

There is a need to leverage open-source to stay competitive, and the benefit of open source is the ability for developers to contribute and work where they are. There is also a need for open-source sustainability with contributions technically and financially.

Knowing the clear need for open source to support projects in the community, where do we start?

Join me in this talk on how I leveraged my employee resource groups to engage existing underserved developer communities with direct mentorship —focused on growing meaningful contributions.

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1. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza The path towards contributions.
2. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza HBCUs
3. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Booker T. Washington Hampton University
4. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza This was about access to information at a time when it was not freely distributed.
5. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza My path into open source
6. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza
7. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza According to the annual BlackDuck open source 360 survey: • Open source is now present in IT workloads in 90% of organizations • Sixty-six percent (66%) of companies surveyed now contribute to open source projects - • Of 1,071 applications audited throughout 2016, 96% contained open source
8. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza According to the annual Linux Foundation/Dice Jobs Report (300 hiring managers and 1800 open-source professional surveyed): • Demand for open source professionals is increasing rapidly - Eighty-nine percent (89%) of hiring managers say it’s difficult to find open source talent • Sixty percent (60%) of companies are now looking for open source full-time hires • Sixty-seven percent (67%) of managers say hiring open source professionals will increase more than other areas in the next 6 months
9. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Open source is valuable to your career
11. Developer Advocate Brian Douglas
12. Beyoncé Advocate Brian Douglas
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16. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Benjamin Banneker
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18. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Benjamin Bannekat
19. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Blacktocat Mini-Summit 2019
20. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Attract and empower black lives in tech. 1. Support GitHub’s efforts to attract the best black talent. 2. Promote Blacktocat leadership and career development at all levels in GitHub. 3. Facilitate the black community’s participation in open source projects and coding. 4. Build an internal support system for Blacktocats within GitHub and connect GitHub Employees with Blacktocats initiatives. The Blacktocats
21. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza 2019 Priority Open Source Education
22. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Octoverse Octoverse
23. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza International Hackathon
24. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza International Hackathon
26. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza FLOSS and Code is a scalable, reproducible (in- a-box) Hackathon that we can host in underserved engineering communities Goal
27. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Free Licensed Open Source Software
28. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Free Libre Open Source Software
29. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza If you don’t got sauce, then you lost ~Gucci Mane
30. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza East Atlanta Santa ~Gucci Mane
31. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza • GitHub Blacktocats lead hack day teaching Black students how to FLOSS. • 4 Open source maintainer provided in- person talks and mentorship • 8 Blacktocats present (2 local) to support the community with mentorship East ATL Hack Day
32. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Mentorship & Slack Support
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35. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Uber Exposure
36. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Joined by the DeKalb County State Representative and County Commissioner Community Impact
37. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza 75 Attendees 1 Uber driver 47 opened issues 13 Documentation PRs 4 Blog posts 2 Tech PRs merged
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40. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza This is about access to information at a time when it was not freely distributed.
41. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza I believe we ought to do all we can and seek to lift ourselves by our own boot straps, but it’s a cruel jest to say to a bootless man he ought to lift himself by his own boostraps. MLK
42. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza The path into open source is broken
43. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Unintentional Gate Keeping
44. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza There are still missing parts to getting involved in open source.
45. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza GitHub is the place to discover open source.
46. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza but every-time I find a project I don't know where to start
47. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza opensource.guide
48. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza goodfirstissue.dev
49. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza codetriage.com
50. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza If you don’t got sauce, then you lost ~Gucci Mane
51. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza I made an open source project to manage my open source contributions
52. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Open Sauced v0
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55. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Join our discord. Let me invest my time into you.
57. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Sponsorship > Mentorship
58. https://github.com/features/sponsors
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62. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza This is not about money. its about access.
63. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza End Gate Keeping. Start Sponsoring
64. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Let’s freely give access to open source.
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