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How to get a job like mine Selena Deckelmann Data Architect, Mozilla @selenamarie [email protected]

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How I was recruited into Computer Science

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The path to becoming an open source contributor

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What's open source software? (free, libre?)

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Open source software (OSS) is computer software with its source code made available and licensed with an open source license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to study, change and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose.

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What's an open source community?

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The phrase "open source community" is commonly used to describe the developer of open source software development projects. But an agreed upon definition eludes us.

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Do people get paid to work on or with open source software?

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74% of surveyed are paid to contribute to open source in some way http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/wiki/index.php/Open_Source_-_Demographics

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60-70% of open source contributors Have a college degree (of some kind) http://widi.berlios.de/paper/study.html

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2-5% of open source contributors are women http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/58218

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What a typical day for me looks like

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Distributed team rule: Always Be Communicating • IRC, Skype, Vidyo, Phone, Twitter, IM • Email • Bugzilla • planet.mozilla.org • A lot of animated gifs

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What community managers do

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Community manager rules: THERE ARE NO RULES

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Community manager rules: Always be measuring • Contributions • Change over time • New contributors • Write about it • Give talks about it

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Working in public

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Creating conferences and user groups

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Learning communities and you

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Join us: Come to PyLadiesPDX! Come to PDXPUG! Come to the Data Science Meetup! Check out http://calagator.org