A Path Towards Open Source Contributions

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza The path towards contributions.

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza HBCUs

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Booker T. Washington Hampton University

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza This was about access to information at a time when it was not freely distributed.

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza My path into open source

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza According to the annual BlackDuck open source 360 survey: • Open source is now present in IT workloads in 90% of organizations • Sixty-six percent (66%) of companies surveyed now contribute to open source projects - • Of 1,071 applications audited throughout 2016, 96% contained open source

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza According to the annual Linux Foundation/Dice Jobs Report (300 hiring managers and 1800 open-source professional surveyed): • Demand for open source professionals is increasing rapidly - Eighty-nine percent (89%) of hiring managers say it’s difﬁcult to ﬁnd open source talent • Sixty percent (60%) of companies are now looking for open source full-time hires • Sixty-seven percent (67%) of managers say hiring open source professionals will increase more than other areas in the next 6 months

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Open source is valuable to your career

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Developer Advocate Brian Douglas

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Beyoncé Advocate Brian Douglas

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Benjamin Banneker

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Benjamin Bannekat

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Blacktocat Mini-Summit 2019

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Attract and empower black lives in tech. 1. Support GitHub’s eﬀorts to attract the best black talent. 2. Promote Blacktocat leadership and career development at all levels in GitHub. 3. Facilitate the black community’s participation in open source projects and coding. 4. Build an internal support system for Blacktocats within GitHub and connect GitHub Employees with Blacktocats initiatives. The Blacktocats

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza 2019 Priority Open Source Education

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Octoverse Octoverse

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza International Hackathon

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza International Hackathon

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza FLOSS and Code is a scalable, reproducible (in- a-box) Hackathon that we can host in underserved engineering communities Goal

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Free Licensed Open Source Software

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Free Libre Open Source Software

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza If you don’t got sauce, then you lost ~Gucci Mane

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza East Atlanta Santa ~Gucci Mane

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza • GitHub Blacktocats lead hack day teaching Black students how to FLOSS. • 4 Open source maintainer provided in- person talks and mentorship • 8 Blacktocats present (2 local) to support the community with mentorship East ATL Hack Day

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Mentorship & Slack Support

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Uber Exposure

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Joined by the DeKalb County State Representative and County Commissioner Community Impact

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza 75 Attendees 1 Uber driver 47 opened issues 13 Documentation PRs 4 Blog posts 2 Tech PRs merged

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza This is about access to information at a time when it was not freely distributed.

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza I believe we ought to do all we can and seek to lift ourselves by our own boot straps, but it’s a cruel jest to say to a bootless man he ought to lift himself by his own boostraps. MLK

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza The path into open source is broken

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Unintentional Gate Keeping

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza There are still missing parts to getting involved in open source.

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza GitHub is the place to discover open source.

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza but every-time I ﬁnd a project I don't know where to start

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza opensource.guide

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza goodﬁrstissue.dev

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza codetriage.com

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza If you don’t got sauce, then you lost ~Gucci Mane

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@bdougieYO opensauced.pizza I made an open source project to manage my open source contributions