Open Source Life - Speaker Deck

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Open Source Life You’re missing out!

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TL’DR If you don’t do open-source You are missing out On tons of opportunities If you do open-source You should do more.

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About me

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Sven Fuchs @svenfuchs http://github.com/svenfuchs Ruby I18n lead Travis CI

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Sven Fuchs

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Sven Fuchs

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What?? http://enemy.ﬁ

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And so?

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Reputation Helps a lot

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You are much smarter than me!

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If I can do that you can do that

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How I got there

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4 Stories About open source

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Story 1 Globalize

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2006 Sick of PHP and my clients Fell in love with Ruby/Rails Found Globalize Wrote about it

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Globalize

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mind.blown!

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I can do that

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Was easy or what?

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Result Learned a lot Friends with great developers Became an “expert” Tons of fun

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If I can do that you can do that

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Do this! pick(:love) do |something| n.times do result = work(something) result.publish end end

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Results Build up skills Connect to great people Become a known “expert” Tons of fun!

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Story 2 I18n

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2007 Tons of Rails I18n plugins Huge pain and mess Round table with all authors Just do it!

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No content

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ZOMG!

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If I can do that you can do that

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How to? Pick any project you love Talk to people Contribute and help Repeat

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How to? Write and review patches Discuss issues and ideas Write docs and blog posts Talk on Twitter, Chats, Mailinglists Help the community

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Designers Create a logo Make a sticker from the logo Improve a design Sketch out ideas for others

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Designers Start with small things People will love you! Great portfolio

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Results Build up skills Connect to great people Be a known “expert” Tons of fun!

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Story 3 Managers

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Berlin “Reboot” my life Move to Berlin Short blog post Perfect job

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Is this a dream? o_O

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Better developer Expert knowledge Hard skills Soft skills Well connected Well known

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Better jobs http://intridea.com/2011/4/28/you-should-be-an-open-source-developer

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Better jobs http://intridea.com/2011/4/28/you-should-be-an-open-source-developer

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Better jobs http://intridea.com/2011/4/28/you-should-be-an-open-source-developer Being involved with one or more open source projects makes you a more desirable employee.

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Managers Make your developers do open source Extract code and publish it Organize local developer events Sponsor open source projects

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Huge benefits Better code Better developers More motivated developers Better applications for jobs Technical credit

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Story 4 Experts

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2011 People help me I know they do fantastic work I help them Great opportunities

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German rates http://www.gulp.de/kb/st/stdsaetze/sstext.html

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Long Tail

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Whatever you do You specialize in something That people want.

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Long Tail http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9845106-16.html

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Long Tail http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9845106-16.html

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Github

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Long Tail http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9845106-16.html

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Open Source Life You’re missing out!

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Open Source If you don’t do open-source You are missing out On tons of opportunities If you do open-source You should do more.

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Do this! pick(:love) do |something| n.times do result = do(something) result.publish end end

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If others can do that you can do that

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But My code sucks It is too complicated I don't have enough time My English isn’t good enough