Building your skills and career through open source

Whether you're new to tech or you want to hone your existing skills, consider using open source to help you get better. This introductory talk discusses how you can get involved with open source and open source at Facebook.

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1. Building up your skills and career with open source Christine Abernathy @abernathyca
2. What is Open Source?
3. of software : having the source code freely available for possible modification and redistribution Merriam‑Webster
5. And this is important because?
7. USE IMPROVE CONTRIBUTE
9. https://github.com/github/mentorships
10. Why does Facebook care about open source?
14. Why Facebook does open source… It’s good for the company Accelerates innovation We write better software We share our challenges
16. What does Facebook open source?
17. Device-Year-Class Buck Network
 Connection Class CSS Layout PathPicker Infer Relay Augmented Traffic Control HHVM fresco ComponentKit React Native Android-Shimmer Rebound pop Transform Proxygen Hack Presto Flow Immutable-JS GraphQL Stetho Nuclide React Origami RocksDb McRouter Jest osquery AsyncDisplayKit create-react-app CSS Layout
18. 391 repos ! " ⋆ $ 96k forks 199k commits 527k followers
19. How can you get involved?
21. • Suggest doc fixes • Use the project extensively • Follow and hang out with core contributors • Jump into “good first bug” issues • Don’t be afraid to ask questions Contributing Pro Tips
22. YOUR PROJECT YOUR PROJECT YOUR PROJECT
23. Thank You!
24. CHRISTINE ABERNATHY
 @abernathyca