http://AssimilationSystems.com/ 1/14 Contribute to Open Source Projects! Contribute to Open Source Projects! Alan Robertson CTO Assimilation Systems Limited [email protected] [email protected] @OSSAlanR Founder: Linux-HA project Assimilation Project

http://AssimilationSystems.com/ 2/14 ● Questions ● Why? ● Which? ● What? ● Do it!

http://AssimilationSystems.com/ 3/14 Do you? Do you? ● Use open source OSes at $work? ● Use open source applications at $work? ● Use open source system management tools at $work?

http://AssimilationSystems.com/ 4/14 Have you? Have you? ● made small FOSS contributions? ● made substantial FOSS contributions? ● started an OSS project? ● started a successful OSS project? ;-)

http://AssimilationSystems.com/ 5/14 Rules of the Road Rules of the Road ● Feel free to ask questions during the talk ● Try not to snore, it'll wake your neighbor up!

http://AssimilationSystems.com/ 6/14 Why? Why? – – $work $work ● Improve local environment ● Fix locally critical bugs ● Get priority help ● Become local expert ● Cross-pollination ● Provide expertise, initiative, leadership

http://AssimilationSystems.com/ 7/14 Why? Why? – – You You ● Learn, Grow! ● Make friends ● Travel, Conferences ● Meet cool people ● Become well-known ● World-wide Leadership ● Improve job prospects

http://AssimilationSystems.com/ 8/14 Examples Examples ● Brent Chapman – majordomo, firewall seminar, book ● Dawn Foster – Puppet community ● Rusty Russell – ipchains ● Warner Moore – blog, bug fixes, puppet modules ● Leam Hall – open source book reviews ● Chris Lindbergh – docs for Nagios plugin ● Daniel Velliard – rpmfind.net ● Paul Morgan – Python3 tito, wormhole ● Dustin Kirkland - byobu ● Allan Jude – BSD ports, ZFS docs ● David Lee – Linux-HA Solaris port ● Dejan Muhamadagic – Linux-HA resource agents ● Juan Carlos (JC) Tong – Assimilation continuous integration

http://AssimilationSystems.com/ 9/14 My Career My Career ● S/W, SysAdmin ● Founded Linux-HA ● Linux-HA for SuSE – tech bubble bursts :-( ● Linux-HA+ for IBM ● Founded Assimilation – IBM Lays off 8000 :-( ● Assimilation Startup

http://AssimilationSystems.com/ 10/14 Why? Why? – – The world The world ● Improves computing for everyone ● Sharing and collaboration raises the bar for everyone ● Improves $WORKn ● Makes projects viable ● Give as you've received

http://AssimilationSystems.com/ 11/14 Which? Which? ● Relevant to Work ● “Open community” ● Viable, Active ● Friendly to newbies ● Any/All of – Cool and Exciting – Important

http://AssimilationSystems.com/ 12/14 What? What? ● Documentation! ● Answer Questions ● Great Bug Reports ● Suggestions ● Reference Site ● Promotion / Talks ● Blog / Write Books

http://AssimilationSystems.com/ 13/14 What? What? ● Build, Packaging ● Continuous Integration ● Write Tests / Testing ● Fix Bugs ● Write plugins ● Write code ● Encouragement, Thanks ● Purchase Developer Support

http://AssimilationSystems.com/ 14/14 Do It! Do It! Choose a project! I suggest the Assimilation Project :-D http://assimilationsystems.com/download But choose a project!