How You Will Create Tomorrow

DevOps Days Charlotte - how open source projects can be started, spread effectively, and how to gain an audience in 2015

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1. How You Will Create
   Tomorrow
   OR: A Crash Course In Open Source World Domination
   DevOps Days Charlotte - Nov 2015
   Michael DeHaan
   

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2. Background
   

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3. (1) Have An Idea
   

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4. Solve A Problem You
   Know and Care About
   

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5. Good Ideas Can
   Come From Anywhere
   

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6. Nothing In Tech Is
   Sacred
   

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7. Much In Tech Is
   Cyclical
   

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8. We’re Still
   Figuring Everything
   Out
   

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9. Most Things Feel Like
   15% Improvements
   

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10. Try Something Crazy:
    Local Maxima Exist
    

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11. (2) Implement Your
    Idea / Code
    

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12. Be Lazy
    Stand On Shoulders Of Giants
    PyPi / Cloud APIs / frameworks / …
    

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13. Don’t Be Clever
    

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14. Perfect Is The Enemy
    Of Good
    

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15. #UseComments
    

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16. Be on GitHub
    

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17. Develop In The Open
    

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18. TDD if you can
    

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19. Don’t Be Worried About
    Code Judgement
    

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20. (3) Get People To Use
    Your Software
    

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21. “Project Marketing”
    

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22. Write Awesome Docs!
    

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23. Make Users Feel
    Successful Over Lunch
    

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24. Write Guest Blogs
    

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25. Message Appropriate
    Mailing Lists /
    Communities
    

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26. Have A Mailing List
    Yourself
    

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27. IRC Channel
    

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28. Meetups /
    Conferences
    

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29. HN/Reddit
    

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30. GitHub
    

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31. Twitter
    

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32. (4) Figure Out How You’re
    Going To Manage Growth
    

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33. Help People
    

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34. Encourage Positive
    Interactions
    

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35. Learn How To Say No
    

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36. Explain Progress and
    Decisions
    

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37. I’ll Say Docs Again
    

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38. Figure Out What You Do
    When You Don’t Scale
    

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39. Grok Innovator’s
    Dilemma
    

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40. Be True To Your
    Original Design Goals
    

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41. Experiment
    

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42. Know When To Say
    You’re Wrong
    

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43. Know What Things Are
    Not Important
    

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44. Tech Is Not Zero Sum
    

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45. Celebrate and Learn from
    Good Design in Other
    Projects
    

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46. Thanks!
    

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