Starting Open S - Speaker Deck

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@michellesanver Starting Open Source How to make your ﬁrst contribution

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@michellesanver

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@michellesanver WIIIIIIIE \o/ “Learn the most by sharing your knowledge with others” - @coderabbi

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@michellesanver Why Open Source? “The promise of open source is better quality, higher reliability, more ﬂexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in.” - opensource.org

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@michellesanver Better Quality

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@michellesanver Higher Reliability

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@michellesanver More Flexibility

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@michellesanver Lower Cost

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@michellesanver End to predatory vendor lock-in

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@michellesanver Convinced Yet?

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@michellesanver How many of you saw the keynote this morning?

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@michellesanver To keep you entertained Count the song references.

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@michellesanver Contributing to Open Source In 10 steps

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@michellesanver Step 1: Choose The Project

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@michellesanver Be passionate about it Step 1: Choose the project

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@michellesanver What are your ‘friends’ doing? Step 1: Choose the project

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@michellesanver

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@michellesanver Activity Step 1: Choose the project

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@michellesanver Your Skills Step 1: Choose the project

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@michellesanver Step 1: Choose the project

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@michellesanver Step 1: Choose the project Ready to change the world? https://www.codemontage.com {code} montage empowers coders to improve their impact on the world.

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@michellesanver Erm.. License? Step 1: Choose the project

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@michellesanver Step 2: Install The Project

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@michellesanver Step 2: Install The Project Body Text

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Do you like vagrant now? @michellesanver

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@michellesanver Step 3: Investigation

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@michellesanver Step 4: Hiiiii! :)

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@michellesanver Step 4: Hiiiii! :) Observe the responses (Should I stay, or should I go?)

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@michellesanver Step 5: What can I do?

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@michellesanver Step 5: What can I do? It’s not your project. (But nothing stops you from branching...)

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@michellesanver Communicate! In open source - Communication is key

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@michellesanver Step 6: How...?

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@michellesanver Step 6: How…? Read The Guidelines

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@michellesanver Step 6: How…? It’s “just” code.

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@michellesanver Step 6: How…? If that scares you...

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@michellesanver Step 6: How…? It’s private, for now. (If you want it to be)

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@michellesanver Step 7: Just do it

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@michellesanver Step 7: Just do it Commit often $ git commit -m 'Michelle will be pleased <3'

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@michellesanver Step 7: Just do it Possibly squash your commits afterwards

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@michellesanver Step 7: Just do it Learn Git http://try.github.io http://gitimmersion.com http://book.git-scm.com

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@michellesanver Step 8: Push it (Just push it push it)

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@michellesanver Step 8: Push it (push it real good) $ git push

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@michellesanver Step 9: The pull request

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@michellesanver Step 9: The pull request Time to show the world (Except those poor sods without Internet)

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@michellesanver Step 9: The pull request Don’t worry (Be happy)

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@michellesanver Step 9: The pull request It’s just a button (And a form...)

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@michellesanver

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@michellesanver Step 10: Code review

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@michellesanver It’s constructive criticism Step 10: Code review

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@michellesanver Step 10: Code review Correct or discuss. You learn so much!

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@michellesanver And if there’s trolls... Step 10: Code review

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@michellesanver Trolls can be cute too! Trolls can be cute too!

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You did it @michellesanver

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@michellesanver How many song references did you count?

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@michellesanver Starting Open Source

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@michellesanver Mentoring in the PHP community

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@michellesanver Who I was

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@michellesanver

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@michellesanver If I got enough nutritional value from code… I would eat that and nothing else. Who I was

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@michellesanver But I would never share my food. Who I was

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@michellesanver Because if I would… Who I was

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@michellesanver Higher Reliability @michellesanver #CommunityWorks

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@michellesanver Made websites under a nickname… Who I was

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@michellesanver No portfolio: Unemployable Who I was

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@michellesanver So… I started my own company! (Unsuccessfully) Who I was

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@michellesanver I had *NO* code conﬁdence Who I was

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@michellesanver Why I wanted to contribute

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@michellesanver I felt ashamed for *not* doing it

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@michellesanver I found a cool project, I wanted to help them improve.

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@michellesanver Obstacles

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@michellesanver - Davey Shaﬁk “I feared that I really had no clue what I was doing and people were going to make fun of me, and I also didn’t know what to do!” 

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@michellesanver - Lorna Mitchell “Honestly, I just didn't realise my efforts would be useful or welcome.“

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@michellesanver - Eli White “I was trying to convince NASA, who I worked for. To allow me to open source some projects I'd created there. And failed.”

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@michellesanver My Obstacles Technology & Fear of public ridicule

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@michellesanver

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@michellesanver Conferences Obstacles: The fear http://joind.in http://callingallpapers.com http://php.net/conferences

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@michellesanver Usergroups Obstacles: The fear https://www.meetup.com/Zurich-Drupal-Meetup

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@michellesanver Obstacles: The fear IRC & Slack #phpc #phpmentoring http://freenode.net https://phpwomen.signup.team

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@michellesanver Body Text Mentoring http://phpmentoring.org Matthew Turland @elazar

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@michellesanver Body Text Mentoring Rafael Dohms @rdohms & Davey Shaﬁk @dshaﬁk