2015 Cascadia Keynote: SysAdmins should Contribute To Open Source Projects!

A talk explaining why SysAdmins should contribute to open source projects, along with how to pick a project, and what to contribute.

Transcript

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   Contribute to Open Source Projects!
   Contribute to Open Source Projects!
   Alan Robertson
   CTO Assimilation Systems Limited
   alanr@unix.sh
   alanr@assimilationsystems.com
   @OSSAlanR
   Founder: Linux-HA project
   Assimilation Project
   

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   Questions
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   Why?
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   Which?
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   What?
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   Do it!
   

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   Do you?
   Do you?
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   Use open source OSes at $work?
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   Use open source applications at $work?
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   Use open source system management tools
   at $work?
   

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   Have you?
   Have you?
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   made small FOSS contributions?
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   made substantial FOSS contributions?
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   started an OSS project?
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   started a successful OSS project? ;-)
   

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   Rules of the Road
   Rules of the Road
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   Feel free to ask questions during the talk
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   Try not to snore, it'll wake your neighbor up
   

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   Why?
   Why? –
   – $work
   $work
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   Improve local environment
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   Fix locally critical bugs
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   Get priority help
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   Become local expert
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   Cross-pollination
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   Provide expertise, initiative,
   leadership
   

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   Why?
   Why? –
   – You
   You
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   Learn, Grow!
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   Make friends
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   Travel, Conferences
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   Meet cool people
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   Become well-known
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   World-wide Leadership
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   Improve job prospects
   

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   Examples
   Examples
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   Brent Chapman – majordomo, firewall seminar, book
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   Dawn Foster – Puppet community
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   Rusty Russell – ipchains
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   Warner Moore – blog, bug fixes, puppet modules
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   Leam Hall – open source book reviews
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   Chris Lindbergh – docs for Nagios plugin
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   Daniel Velliard – rpmfind.net
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   Paul Morgan – Python3 tito, wormhole
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   Dustin Kirkland - byobu
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   Allan Jude – BSD ports, ZFS docs
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   David Lee – Linux-HA Solaris port
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   Dejan Muhamadagic – Linux-HA resource agents
   

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   My Career
   My Career
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   S/W, SysAdmin
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   Founded Linux-HA
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   Linux-HA for SuSE
   – tech bubble bursts :-(
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   Linux-HA+ for IBM
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   Founded Assimilation
   – IBM Lays off 8000 :-(
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   Assimilation Startup
   

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    Why?
    Why? –
    – The world
    The world
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    Improves SysAdmin
    profession
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    Sharing and collaboration
    raises the bar for everyone
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    Improves $WORKn
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    Makes projects viable
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    Give as you've received
    

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    Which?
    Which?
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    Relevant to Work
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    “Open community”
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    Viable, Active
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    Friendly to newbies
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    Any/All of
    – Cool and Exciting
    – Important
    

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    What?
    What?
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    Documentation!
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    Answer Questions
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    Great Bug Reports
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    Suggestions
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    Reference Site
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    Promotion / Talks
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    Blog / Write Books
    

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    What?
    What?
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    Build, Packaging
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    Continuous Integration
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    Write Tests / Testing
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    Fix Bugs
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    Write plugins
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    Write code
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    Encouragement, Thanks
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    Purchase Developer Support
    

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    Do It!
    Do It!
    Choose a project!
    I suggest the Assimilation Project :-D
    http://assimilationsystems.com/download
    But choose a project!
    

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