Giving (and Taking) Back

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Giving (and Taking) Back or, “What to do on boring days that we never have”

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Mike Fiedler Operations Datadog.com Twitter: @mikefiedler GitHub: @miketheman OpsSchool.org Chef Community Roller Derby Ref Skydiver ©Alex Erde

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What is Open Source? Wikimedia Commons

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Do you use F/OSS?

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80% of commercial apps to use Open Source by 2012 -Gartner, 2008

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What are YOU doing to help? Flickr: DonkeyHotey

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Familiar? “That widget in that doodad is broken.” “So fix it!” “But I don’t know how to code.” “Ah well...”

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Bullshit.

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Learning codecademy.com codeschool.com learncodethehardway.org coursera.org developers.google.com/university/

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Read things Project’s website or README Mailing lists? Contribution/Testing Guidelines Open Issues, Mailing list Contributor License Agreement (CLA)

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You are NOT alone.

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Get involved get the code run the tests make the changes run the tests share your patch

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Get involved fix typos in docs add more docs browse issues, verify

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Commit messages Make NO assumptions Describe with your words Why, How, What Include references

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TDD, BDD, RDD

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Maintaining Open Source

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Hell is full of good meanings, but heaven is full of good works.

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Get excited! Flickr: NoahSussman

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Work for free!

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Things you can do provide low bar to entry write down your intentions lead by example

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You are NOT your code.

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