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@michellesanver Starting Open Source How to make your ﬁrst contribution

@michellesanver

@michellesanver WIIIIIIIE \o/ “Learn the most by sharing your knowledge
with others” - @coderabbi

@michellesanver Why Open Source? “The promise of open source is
better quality, higher reliability, more ﬂexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in.” - opensource.org

@michellesanver Better Quality

@michellesanver Higher Reliability

@michellesanver More Flexibility

@michellesanver Lower Cost

@michellesanver End to predatory vendor lock-in

@michellesanver Convinced Yet?

@michellesanver How many of you saw the keynote this morning?

@michellesanver To keep you entertained Count the song references.

@michellesanver Contributing to Open Source In 10 steps

@michellesanver Step 1: Choose The Project

@michellesanver Be passionate about it Step 1: Choose the project

@michellesanver What are your ‘friends’ doing? Step 1: Choose the
project

@michellesanver

@michellesanver Activity Step 1: Choose the project

@michellesanver Your Skills Step 1: Choose the project

@michellesanver Step 1: Choose the project

@michellesanver Step 1: Choose the project Ready to change the
world? https://www.codemontage.com {code} montage empowers coders to improve their impact on the world.

@michellesanver Erm.. License? Step 1: Choose the project

@michellesanver Step 2: Install The Project

@michellesanver Step 2: Install The Project Body Text

Do you like vagrant now? @michellesanver

@michellesanver Step 3: Investigation

@michellesanver Step 4: Hiiiii! :)

@michellesanver Step 4: Hiiiii! :) Observe the responses (Should I
stay, or should I go?)

@michellesanver Step 5: What can I do?

@michellesanver Step 5: What can I do? It’s not your
project. (But nothing stops you from branching...)

@michellesanver Communicate! In open source - Communication is key

@michellesanver Step 6: How...?

@michellesanver Step 6: How…? Read The Guidelines

@michellesanver Step 6: How…? It’s “just” code.

@michellesanver Step 6: How…? If that scares you...

@michellesanver Step 6: How…? It’s private, for now. (If you
want it to be)

@michellesanver Step 7: Just do it

@michellesanver Step 7: Just do it Commit often $ git
commit -m 'Michelle will be pleased <3'

@michellesanver Step 7: Just do it Possibly squash your commits
afterwards

@michellesanver Step 7: Just do it Learn Git http://try.github.io http://gitimmersion.com
http://book.git-scm.com

@michellesanver Step 8: Push it (Just push it push it)

@michellesanver Step 8: Push it (push it real good) $
git push

@michellesanver Step 9: The pull request

@michellesanver Step 9: The pull request Time to show the
world (Except those poor sods without Internet)

@michellesanver Step 9: The pull request Don’t worry (Be happy)

@michellesanver Step 9: The pull request It’s just a button
(And a form...)

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@michellesanver Step 10: Code review

@michellesanver It’s constructive criticism Step 10: Code review

@michellesanver Step 10: Code review Correct or discuss. You learn
so much!

@michellesanver And if there’s trolls... Step 10: Code review

@michellesanver Trolls can be cute too! Trolls can be cute
too!

You did it @michellesanver

@michellesanver How many song references did you count?

@michellesanver Starting Open Source

@michellesanver Mentoring in the PHP community

@michellesanver Who I was

@michellesanver

@michellesanver If I got enough nutritional value from code… I
would eat that and nothing else. Who I was

@michellesanver But I would never share my food. Who I
was

@michellesanver Because if I would… Who I was

@michellesanver Higher Reliability @michellesanver #CommunityWorks

@michellesanver Made websites under a nickname… Who I was

@michellesanver No portfolio: Unemployable Who I was

@michellesanver So… I started my own company! (Unsuccessfully) Who I
was

@michellesanver I had *NO* code conﬁdence Who I was

@michellesanver Why I wanted to contribute

@michellesanver I felt ashamed for *not* doing it

@michellesanver I found a cool project, I wanted to help
them improve.

@michellesanver Obstacles

@michellesanver - Davey Shaﬁk “I feared that I really had
no clue what I was doing and people were going to make fun of me, and I also didn’t know what to do!” 

@michellesanver - Lorna Mitchell “Honestly, I just didn't realise my
efforts would be useful or welcome.“

@michellesanver - Eli White “I was trying to convince NASA,
who I worked for. To allow me to open source some projects I'd created there. And failed.”

@michellesanver My Obstacles Technology & Fear of public ridicule

@michellesanver

@michellesanver Conferences Obstacles: The fear http://joind.in http://callingallpapers.com http://php.net/conferences

@michellesanver Usergroups Obstacles: The fear https://www.meetup.com/Zurich-Drupal-Meetup

@michellesanver Obstacles: The fear IRC & Slack #phpc #phpmentoring http://freenode.net
https://phpwomen.signup.team

@michellesanver Body Text Mentoring http://phpmentoring.org Matthew Turland @elazar

@michellesanver Body Text Mentoring Rafael Dohms @rdohms & Davey Shaﬁk
@dshaﬁk

@michellesanver Body Text Mentoring Igor Wiedler

@michellesanver Mentoring http://phpmentoring.org Get a mentor… Or 5

@michellesanver

@michellesanver Who I am now Still code passionate

@michellesanver

@michellesanver Who I am now A conference addict and speaker

@michellesanver Who I am now Still afraid to contribute

@michellesanver Who I am now Ran a *successful* company

@michellesanver Who I am now

@michellesanver Thank you. #CommunityWorks

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