Upgrade to Pro — share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …

You should contribute to open source

Avatar for Drew Ulmer Drew Ulmer
April 09, 2014
Programming
2
59

You should contribute to open source

A short talk encouraging novices to get involved in open source.
Avatar for Drew Ulmer

Drew Ulmer

April 09, 2014
Tweet

Other Decks in Programming

See All in Programming
AIと”コードの評価関数”を共有する / Share the "code evaluation function" with AI
Avatar for Shintani Teppei euglena1215
1
140
datadog dash 2025 LLM observability for reliability and stability
Avatar for 株式会社IVRy（社員登壇資料） ivry_presentationmaterials
0
450
ruby.wasmで多人数リアルタイム通信ゲームを作ろう
Avatar for lni_T lnit
3
430
What Spring Developers Should Know About Jakarta EE
Avatar for ivargrimstad ivargrimstad
0
420
20250628_非エンジニアがバイブコーディングしてみた
Avatar for ponponmikan ponponmikankan
0
660
Modern Angular with Signals and Signal Store: New Rules for Your Architecture @enterJS Advanced Angular Day 2025
Avatar for Manfred Steyer manfredsteyer
PRO
0
190
生成AIコーディングとの向き合い方、AIと共創するという考え方 / How to deal with generative AI coding and the concept of co-creating with AI
Avatar for shiro seike seike460
PRO
1
350
今ならAmazon ECSのサービス間通信をどう選ぶか / Selection of ECS Interservice Communication 2025
Avatar for Tetsuya Kikuchi tkikuc
21
3.9k
AIエージェントはこう育てる - GitHub Copilot Agentとチームの共進化サイクル
Avatar for Akira Kobori koboriakira
0
500
Discover Metal 4
Avatar for rei rei315
2
120
Team topologies and the microservice architecture: a synergistic relationship
Avatar for Chris Richardson cer
PRO
0
1.2k
NPOでのDevinの活用
Avatar for みんなのコード codeforeveryone
0
780

Featured

See All Featured
It's Worth the Effort
Avatar for 3n 3n
185
28k
Practical Orchestrator
Avatar for Shlomi Noach shlominoach
188
11k
Code Reviewing Like a Champion
Avatar for maltzj maltzj
524
40k
How To Stay Up To Date on Web Technology
Avatar for Chris Coyier chriscoyier
790
250k
ピンチをチャンスに：未来をつくるプロダクトロードマップ #pmconf2020
Avatar for Aki / @LoveIdahoBurger aki_iinuma
126
52k
Producing Creativity
Avatar for Steve Smith orderedlist
PRO
346
40k
How to train your dragon (web standard)
Avatar for Monica Dinculescu notwaldorf
94
6.1k
Agile that works and the tools we love
Avatar for Rasmus Luckow-Nielsen rasmusluckow
329
21k
Visualizing Your Data: Incorporating Mongo into Loggly Infrastructure
Avatar for mongodb mongodb
46
9.6k
A Tale of Four Properties
Avatar for Chris Coyier chriscoyier
160
23k
Statistics for Hackers
Avatar for Jake VanderPlas jakevdp
799
220k
KATA
Avatar for Megan Lloyd mclloyd
30
14k

Transcript

  1. You should contribute to open source Drew Ulmer

  2. Drew Ulmer unabridgedsoftware.com [email protected] @latortuga

  3. Why should I?

  4. Practice collaborating

  5. Fame Practice collaborating

  6. Fame Practice collaborating Skills

  7. Fame Practice collaborating Skills Credibility

  8. Fame Practice collaborating Skills Credibility Fortune

  9. Picking a project

  10. Pick something you’re interested in

  11. GitHub: github.com/trending

  12. GitHub Ruby Toolbox: ruby-toolbox.com

  13. GitHub Ruby Toolbox Gemfile

  14. Brass Tacks

  15. 1. Go where the fish are

  16. Wiki, README, Docs 2. Pick Something

  17. Wiki, README, Docs Mailing List 2. Pick Something

  18. Wiki, README, Docs Mailing List StackOverflow tag 2. Pick Something

  19. 2. Pick Something Issues/Bug Tracker Wiki, README, Docs Mailing List

    StackOverflow tag

  20. Fix some docs 3. Go For It Subscribe to a

    mailing list Answer a question File a bug report

  21. Bug Reports 101

  22. Summary What have you tried? Reproduction Bug Reports 101

  23. Proofread Respond to Feedback Bug Reports 102

  24. Psychology

  25. Really?

  26. I don’t have time I will get laughed at I

    don’t have enough experience Saturn is in retrograde I’m really shy

  27. I don’t have time I will get laughed at I

    don’t have enough experience Saturn is in retrograde I’m really shy
  28. None
  29. None

  30. Demo