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How You Will Create Tomorrow OR: A Crash Course In Open Source World Domination DevOps Days Charlotte - Nov 2015 Michael DeHaan

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Background

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(1) Have An Idea

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Solve A Problem You Know and Care About

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Good Ideas Can Come From Anywhere

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Nothing In Tech Is Sacred

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Much In Tech Is Cyclical

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We’re Still Figuring Everything Out

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Most Things Feel Like 15% Improvements

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Try Something Crazy: Local Maxima Exist

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(2) Implement Your Idea / Code

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Be Lazy Stand On Shoulders Of Giants PyPi / Cloud APIs / frameworks / …

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Don’t Be Clever

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Perfect Is The Enemy Of Good

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#UseComments

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Be on GitHub

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Develop In The Open

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TDD if you can

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Don’t Be Worried About Code Judgement

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(3) Get People To Use Your Software

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“Project Marketing”

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Write Awesome Docs!

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Make Users Feel Successful Over Lunch

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Write Guest Blogs

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Message Appropriate Mailing Lists / Communities

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Have A Mailing List Yourself

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IRC Channel

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Meetups / Conferences

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HN/Reddit

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GitHub

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Twitter

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(4) Figure Out How You’re Going To Manage Growth

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Help People

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Encourage Positive Interactions

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Learn How To Say No

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Explain Progress and Decisions

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I’ll Say Docs Again

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Figure Out What You Do When You Don’t Scale

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Grok Innovator’s Dilemma

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Be True To Your Original Design Goals

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Experiment

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Know When To Say You’re Wrong

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Know What Things Are Not Important

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Tech Is Not Zero Sum

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Celebrate and Learn from Good Design in Other Projects

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Thanks!