Stories in Open Source

What’s it like to work on Open Source projects? They’re all the same aren’t they? No, they’re not - the longer I worked on Open Source the more I realize how different the experience is for each one of them. Walk with me through some stories that happened to me in Open Source and let’s see what we can take away.

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2. First contact
3. gedit
5. gedit
6. gedit
8. The End
9. The End needless work
10. The End needless work missing triaging
11. The End needless work missing triaging no appreciation
12. The End needless work missing triaging frustration no appreciation
13. Stories in Open Source Tobias Pfeiffer @PragTob pragtob.info
17. Shoes.app width: 300, height: 200 do background lime..blue stack do para "Welcome to the world of Shoes!" button "Click me" do alert "Nice click!" end image "http:./shoesrb.com/img/shoes-icon.png", margin_top: 20, margin_left: 10 end end
20. Welcoming, friendly & helpful
21. OSS friends
22. Give people access
23. Release early, release often
24. You are not your OSS
25. class Dog def bark puts 'Woooof' end end Dog.extend AfterDo Dog.after :bark do puts 'I just heard a dog bark!' end dog = Dog.new dog.bark # Output is: # Woooof # I just heard a dog bark! after_do
27. micro libraries are great
28. you have no idea how it’s used
29. list = Enum.to_list(1..10_000) map_fun = fn i .> [i, i * i] end Benchee.run( %{ "flat_map" .> fn .> Enum.flat_map(list, map_fun) end, "map.flatten" .> fn .> list .> Enum.map(map_fun) .> List.flatten() end }, time: 10, memory_time: 2 ) benchee
31. learn as you go
32. just being better isn’t enough
33. co-maintainers
34. We made it!
35. SimpleCov
37. “legacy” OSS
38. joy of impact
39. you don’t owe people
40. nightmares of integration
41. First step into OSS
42. Please report issues!
43. Be nice!
44. Be nice! Minimize
45. Be nice! Minimize Reproduce
47. Discuss!
48. (Maybe) add a PR!
49. OSS vs Work
51. OSS Be nice!
52. OSS Be nice! Your OSS, your time
53. OSS Be nice! Your OSS, your time Adoption takes time
54. OSS seemingly even less diverse
55. OSS seemingly even less diverse is this sustainable?
56. OSS seemingly even less diverse is this sustainable? what about people using OSS for “evil”?
58. friends
59. friends
60. friends
61. friends first talks
62. friends first talks
63. friends first talks
64. friends first talks
65. friends first talks learning
66. friends first talks learning all other projects
67. friends first talks learning all other projects
68. @PragTob Enjoy OSS