The Art of Open Source - Speaker Deck

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The Art of Open Source Vishnu Ks

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OKAY, LET’S TALK ABOUT ● Building cool things. ● Making it public. ● Contributing to cool projects ● Rewards $$$$

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Summer With Zulip Team Dropbox Inc

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How I got started in open Source

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Problems i faced in the beginning ● Had no idea how to contribute ● Doubt whether I know enough to contribute ● Everyone else is doing Codechef. Why should i do this? ● Have no clue on how to use Git ● What exactly is a bug? ● How to fix it? ● How to make the fix available to rest of the world?

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Making Open Source Cooler and Easier since 2008

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Initial Contributions

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● Typos Fixes ● Documentation updates ● Url FIXES

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Lessons learned ● You always start small ● It takes time to make a significant contribution ● You don’t have to be hard core developer to make contributions ● If you like programming you are more than good to start

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Work On Personal Projects OPEN SOURCE YOUR PROJECTS

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Put all your code on github ● It can be the codechef/codeforces problems you solved. ● It can be your semester projects. ● It can be your personal projects. ● It can be the list of books u read. ● It can be your dotfiles. ● It can be your research paper.

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The mobile app was pretty bad as I just used phonegap for making the APP. Pranjal Paliwal (at that time first year) saw the App and wanted to make it better. He built a beautiful APP out of it. You should all check out his app.

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Want Some Inspiration?

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$$ REWARDS $$

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FREE KARMA

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YOU GET AN AWESOME RESUME

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RECRUITERS LOVE GITHUB ● I Was offered the job of lead architect in a startup at Copenhagen, Denmark. ● Couldn't take the offer as I was in 3rd year. ● But this gave me the confidence to quit competitive programming completely and focus solely on Open Source.

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Summer with ZUlip

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I WAS THE LEAST BRILLIANT PERSON WORKING ON THE PROJECT BY A HUGE MARGIN

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You get to learn from the best of the best.

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Plus a lot of $$$

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THERE ARE NO LIMITS ON REWARDS

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BUT THE HAPPINESS YOU GET WHILE CONTRIBUTING TO OPEN SOURCE IS THE MOST AWESOME PART

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