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How open source communities communicate Asheesh Laroia [email protected]

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(Goals of this talk)

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(about me and OpenHatch)

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Part I. Discovering Linux, and my first contribution

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[paulproteus@host] $

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:(){ :|:&};:

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Don't panic

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"Please help me recover my data. I will perform any test or run any program you recommend...."

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“That reminds me...”

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Replaying journal.. 0 transactions replayed Checking S+tree.. Bad root block 4294967295. (--rebuild-tree did not complete) ok Checking Semantic tree... check_semantic_tree: no root directory found Aborted

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A new fsck!

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What worked about my email ● Post to the right mailing list ● I read the docs ● Provided anything that looked relevant ● Patience

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Am I a contributor yet?

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Reflection: 80% of success is showing up

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Part II. Xboxes and IRC

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Xbox

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[19:35:09] hello? [19:35:21] Xbox linx people :D [19:35:44] I need a bit of help. How can I boot into single user mode on the xbox- original?

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00:57 -!- Arti has joined #xbox-linux 00:57 hi 00:57 hi 00:57 * paulproteus sticks his head up 00:59 im on my cell 00:59 :-)

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00:58 !google video Linux Zoran 00:58 <@xbox-logger> http://www.cicese.mx/~mirsev /Linux/DC10plus/

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[09:59:30] --> mib_0x1ww2 has joined #xbox-linux [09:59:45] http://cbe005.chat.mibbit.com/? server=irc.genevairc.net&channe l=%23choosinghats. Christian chat channel! visit when able! [09:59:47] <-- mib_0x1ww2 has left #xbox-linux

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01:33 what hapopens if u tell it to spell quit? 01:34 with the /

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01:34 !spell "/quit" 01:34 !spell yourr 01:34 <@xbox-logger> your

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01:34 ! spell /yourr 01:34 <@xbox-logger> /your

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01:34 ! spell /quitt 01:34 <@xbox-logger> /quit 01:34 Hmm.

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btw, i think we can officially link to the wiki on the website now, it has proven to be good :-)

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Part III. User groups and bug trackers

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“The best place for us to have a meeting... would be a Western suburb of Detroit.”

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“We also don't need to be drunk within 10 minutes, maybe 30.”

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(Enhance a bug report.)

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“Very few things are as tempting as a link to the problem.” sscce.org

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Part IV. Fake it 'til you make it

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Use this stuff yourself

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(It took me five years to submit a patch)

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Hey Asheesh -- sorry we missed this the first time... the patch didn't go through... Could you try to get an svn co, apply your patch, and then submit an 'svn diff' ? Thanks! JDH

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OK, it's in -- thanks! JDH

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Part 5. A tour of ways to contribute

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make.wordpress.org/ polyglots/ libreoffice.org/ get-involved/ ux-visual-designers/

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Part VI. Workshop info!

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Part VII. (Extras) zoph, fester2webdav, debian key fail

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