The Magic Sauce is Open Source

Contributing to open source can be a complicated process if you're new. Details include how to navigate a contribution and how to find a good place to start..

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1. The Magic Sauce is Open Source Brandon  Hilkert   @brandonhilkert   h1p:/ /brandonhilkert.com
2. Topics Who  am  I? 1 Why  contribute? 2 What  to  contribute  to? 3 How  to  contribute? 4
3. Who am I? 1
6. 2003  -­‐  Mechanical  Engineering  at  VT 2004  -­‐  Quit  and  found  IT  (Systems) 2007  -­‐  Started  development                            Working  with  Open  Source 2010  -­‐  Wrote  first  Ruby  Gem 2011  -­‐  First  commit  to  Sidekiq Who am I?
7. 2013  -­‐  Wrote  the  Sucker  Punch  Ruby  gem 2014  -­‐  Sucker  Punch  merged  in  as                    Rails  AcSve  Job  adapter Who am I? 2014  -­‐  Wrote  book
12. What did i learn?
13. Why contribute? 2
15. What are your goals?
19. How to get started Fix  a  bug  in  an  exisSng  library   because  it  affects  you 1 Improve  an  exisSng  library  to  learn  more 2 Create  new  library  by  extracSng  code 3
22. What to contribute to? 3
23. What are your goals again?
29. How to contribute? 4
30. How to contribute? Fork  repository  on  Github 1 Make  changes  to  local  fork 2 Push  changes  to  Github 3 Create  Pull  Request  back  to  original  repo 4
31. Demo
32. h1p:/ /brandonhilkert.com
33. Questions? h1p:/ /brandonhilkert.com h1p:/ /brandonhilkert.com/ blog/3-­‐ways-­‐to-­‐get-­‐started-­‐ contribu?ng-­‐to-­‐open-­‐source/