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Mike Fiedler
October 18, 2013
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Giving (and Taking) Back
DevOpsDays NYC 2013, Mike Fiedler
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October 18, 2013
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Giving (and Taking) Back or, “What to do on boring
days that we never have”
Mike Fiedler Operations Datadog.com Twitter: @mikefiedler GitHub: @miketheman OpsSchool.org Chef
Community Roller Derby Ref Skydiver ©Alex Erde
What is Open Source? Wikimedia Commons
Do you use F/OSS?
80% of commercial apps to use Open Source by 2012
-Gartner, 2008
What are YOU doing to help? Flickr: DonkeyHotey
Familiar? “That widget in that doodad is broken.” “So fix
it!” “But I don’t know how to code.” “Ah well...”
Bullshit.
Learning codecademy.com codeschool.com learncodethehardway.org coursera.org developers.google.com/university/
Read things Project’s website or README Mailing lists? Contribution/Testing Guidelines
Open Issues, Mailing list Contributor License Agreement (CLA)
You are NOT alone.
Get involved get the code run the tests make the
changes run the tests share your patch
Get involved fix typos in docs add more docs browse
issues, verify
Commit messages Make NO assumptions Describe with your words Why,
How, What Include references
TDD, BDD, RDD
Maintaining Open Source
Hell is full of good meanings, but heaven is full
of good works.
Get excited! Flickr: NoahSussman
Work for free!
Things you can do provide low bar to entry write
down your intentions lead by example
You are NOT your code.
You are NOT alone.
Tools of the Trade GitHub BitBucket Google Code SourceForge stillmaintained.com
Travis-CI Drone.io CloudBees coveralls.io codeclimate.com
Public Domain Apache v2 MIT LGPL v2.1 GPL v2 GPL
v3 BSD 2-Clause BSD 3-Clause Affero GPL LGPL v3 Creative Commons WFTPL
Public Domain Apache v2 MIT LGPL v2.1 GPL v2 GPL
v3 BSD 2-Clause BSD 3-Clause Affero GPL LGPL v3 Creative Commons WFTPL ChooseALicense.com
SemVer.org 2.1.5-beta.2+datadog.15
Let dead code die
Publishing good code is hard Flickr: elibrody
You are NOT alone. <virtual mic drop>
jk ;) Questions?