How to get a job like mine
Selena Deckelmann
Data Architect, Mozilla
@selenamarie
selena@chesnok.com
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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