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 
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2. @mgechev CareerShow.bg
3. @mgechev Professional growth Impact Net worth Happiness
4. @mgechev ⽣きがい A Reason for Being I - Ki - Ga - I
6. @mgechev Thank you! twitter.com/mgechev 
 github.com/mgechev 
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7. @mgechev Perspective of professional
9. How to get good at something?
10. How to get good at something? I don’t know???
11. What are the options? How to get good at something? I don’t know???
12. What are the options? How to get good at something? What?! I don’t know???
13. @mgechev Ideal scenario
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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
16. @mgechev What do we need? Opportunity Knowledge Community Validation
17. @mgechev 0.00000101185%
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.
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.
29. @mgechev Building your knowledge… and profile
30. @yourtwitter @mgechev Knowledge and profile • Free resources • Huge amount of concentrated knowledge in OSS • Hands-on practice and validation
31. Rob Pike
32. Rob Pike Linus Torvalds
33. Rob Pike Linus Torvalds Tim Berners-Lee
34. Rob Pike Linus Torvalds Tim Berners-Lee Are all on GitHub
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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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
44. @yourtwitter @mgechev It’s too hard
45. @yourtwitter @mgechev It’s too hard Start small
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48. @yourtwitter @mgechev Nobody cares about my contributions
49. @yourtwitter @mgechev Nobody cares about my contributions
50. @yourtwitter @mgechev Angular has: 2,400 contributors
51. @yourtwitter @mgechev I’m not good enough, people will laugh at my code
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
53. @yourtwitter @mgechev I’ll be doing free work
54. @yourtwitter @mgechev I’ll be doing free work Don’t work.
55. @yourtwitter @mgechev I’ll be doing free work Don’t work. Play.
57. https://twitter.com/mgechev/status/1385780508123045890
64. @mgechev Professional growth Impact Net worth Happiness
65. @mgechev Thank you! twitter.com/mgechev 
 github.com/mgechev 
 blog.mgechev.com Survey: mgv.io/talk