Helping Yourself with Open Source Software

Learn what open source software is, why you should contribute and what effectively run open source projects look like.

Presented at RubyConf Kenya in 2017.

Transcript

1. Helping Yourself with Open Source Software ! @MikeMcQuaid
2. Mike McQuaid Maintainer (2009-17) twitter.com/MikeMcQuaid
3. ! Mike McQuaid Senior Engineer (2013-17) github.com/MikeMcQuaid
4. what is open source?
5. open source software is software with source code that anyone can inspect, modify, and enhance https://opensource.com/resources/what-open-source
6. why use open source?
7. open source is free to use
8. open source is widely used
9. open source is (often) documented
10. open source is best for agile and
11. open source is best for agile and best for entrepreneurs
12. what is GitHub?
13. $ 21m developers GitHub 58m repositories
14. 20% are considered open source software 28m public repositories
15. nodejs/node 1,356 contributors 17,480 commits rails/rails 3,293 contributors 62,488 commits rust-lang/rust 1,783 contributors 64,186 commits django/django 1,409 contributors 24,370 commits
16. how can I get started in open source?
17. https:// opensource.gui de https://opensource.guide
18. scratch an itch
19. what groups of people are in open source?
20. users !
21. contributors
22. maintainers
23. no-one ever became a contributor without being a user first
24. no-one ever became a maintainer without being a contributor first
25. no-one excels as a maintainer without remaining an active user
26. users contributors maintainers
27. many contributors were talked into it
28. most maintainers were talked into it
32. docs.brew.sh/How-To-Open-a-Homebrew-Pull-Request.html
33. docs.brew.sh/New-Maintainer-Checklist.html
34. how can you keep users/contributors/ maintainers happy?
35. users high quality no guilt merges no v2.0
36. contributors no bike shedding ☎ open discussions no feature issues
37. maintainers code of conduct private chat always growing
38. questions?