Change the World With Open Source Software

Building open source projects you're sharing your work for free with everyone in the world. This controversial activity, however, can change millions of lives while helping us gain expertise and visibility. In this talk, we'll look into how we can change the world, and ourselves via open source software.

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1. @yourtwitter
   Change the World With Open Source Software
   Minko Gechev
   twitter.com/mgechev
   

   github.com/mgechev
   

   blog.mgechev.com
   

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2. @mgechev
   CareerShow.bg
   

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3. @mgechev
   Professional growth
   Impact Net worth Happiness
   

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4. @mgechev
   ⽣きがい
   A Reason for Being
   I - Ki - Ga - I
   

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6. @mgechev
   Thank you!
   twitter.com/mgechev
   

   github.com/mgechev
   

   blog.mgechev.com
   Survey: mgv.io/talk
   

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7. @mgechev
   Perspective of professional
   

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9. How to get good
   
   
   at something?
   

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10. How to get good
    
    
    at something?
    I don’t know???
    

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11. What are the options?
    How to get good
    
    
    at something?
    I don’t know???
    

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12. What are the options?
    How to get good
    
    
    at something? What?!
    I don’t know???
    

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13. @mgechev
    Ideal scenario
    

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14. @mgechev
    

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15. John Doe
    Stanford University, Computer Science
    Undergraduate in computer science focused on distributed
    computing and programming language design.
    Google, Software Engineer
    Worked on project Foobar, improving its performance with 5%,
    bringing overall revenue increase $XYZm
    Skills
    Distributed networks
    

    PL design
    
    
    Functional programming
    
    
    Java, C++, C, JavaScript
    Projects
    DistriLang - programming
    language with distributed
    callstack
    
    
    Foobar - user facing platform
    with XYZm users
    

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16. @mgechev
    What do we need?
    Opportunity Knowledge Community Validation
    

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17. @mgechev
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18. @mgechev
    o·pen-source
    
    
    adjective COMPUTING
    
    
    1. denoting software for which the original source
    code is made freely available and may be
    redistributed and modi
    fi
    ed.
    

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19. @mgechev
    o·pen-source
    
    
    adjective COMPUTING
    
    
    1. denoting software for which the original source
    code is made freely available and may be
    redistributed and modi
    fi
    ed.
    

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29. @mgechev
    Building your knowledge…
    
    
    and profile
    

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30. @yourtwitter
    @mgechev
    Knowledge and profile
    ● Free resources
    
    
    ● Huge amount of concentrated knowledge in OSS
    
    
    ● Hands-on practice and validation
    

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31. Rob Pike
    

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32. Rob Pike
    Linus Torvalds
    

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33. Rob Pike
    Linus Torvalds
    Tim Berners-Lee
    

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34. Rob Pike
    Linus Torvalds
    Tim Berners-Lee
    Are all on GitHub
    

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36. John Doe
    Stanford University, Computer Science
    Undergraduate in computer science focused on distributed
    computing and programming language design.
    Google, Software Engineer
    Worked on project Foobar, improving its performance with 5%,
    bringing overall revenue increase $XYZm
    Skills
    Distributed networks
    

    PL design
    
    
    Functional programming
    
    
    Java, C++, C, JavaScript
    Projects
    DistriLang - programming
    language with distributed
    callstack
    
    
    Foobar - user facing platform
    with XYZm users
    Jane Doe
    Skills
    Distributed networks
    

    PL design
    
    
    Functional programming
    
    
    Java, C++, C, JavaScript
    Projects
    SoLiD - developed modules allowing truly decentralized data
    ownership in the internet as part of the team of Prof. Tim
    Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web.
    Go - fixed an issue in the Go garbage collection algorithm,
    resulting in X% improvement. This improved the memory
    usage and decreased swap usage resulting in $Xb revenue
    increase for XYZ.
    Linux - introduced a performance improvement in the GPU
    drivers for NVidia resulting in X% performance increase of
    SIMD calculations.
    

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40. @mgechev
    

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43. @yourtwitter
    @mgechev
    Top 5 myths
    ● It’s too hard
    
    
    ● Nobody cares about my contributions
    
    
    ● I’m not good enough, people will laugh at my code
    
    
    ● I’ll be doing free work
    

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44. @yourtwitter
    @mgechev
    It’s too hard
    

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45. @yourtwitter
    @mgechev
    It’s too hard
    Start small
    

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48. @yourtwitter
    @mgechev
    Nobody cares about my contributions
    

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49. @yourtwitter
    @mgechev
    Nobody cares about my contributions
    

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50. @yourtwitter
    @mgechev
    Angular has:
    2,400
    contributors
    

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51. @yourtwitter
    @mgechev
    I’m not good enough, people will laugh at my code
    

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52. @yourtwitter
    @mgechev
    Myth of the genius
    
    
    programmer
    Brian Fitzpatrick
    
    
    Ben Collins-Sussman
    youtu.be/0SARbwvhupQ
    I’m not good enough, people will laugh at my code
    

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53. @yourtwitter
    @mgechev
    I’ll be doing free work
    

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54. @yourtwitter
    @mgechev
    I’ll be doing free work
    Don’t work.
    

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55. @yourtwitter
    @mgechev
    I’ll be doing free work
    Don’t work. Play.
    

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57. https://twitter.com/mgechev/status/1385780508123045890
    

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64. @mgechev
    Professional growth
    Impact Net worth Happiness
    

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65. @mgechev
    Thank you!
    twitter.com/mgechev
    

    github.com/mgechev
    

    blog.mgechev.com
    Survey: mgv.io/talk
    

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