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
   

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3. gedit
   

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5. gedit
   

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6. gedit
   

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8. The End
   

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9. The End
   needless work
   

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10. The End
    needless work
    missing triaging
    

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11. The End
    needless work
    missing triaging
    no appreciation
    

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12. The End
    needless work
    missing triaging
    frustration
    no appreciation
    

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13. Stories in Open Source
    Tobias Pfeiffer
    @PragTob
    pragtob.info
    

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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
    

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20. Welcoming, friendly & helpful
    

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21. OSS friends
    

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22. Give people access
    

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23. Release early, release often
    

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24. You are not your OSS
    

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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
    

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27. micro libraries are great
    

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28. you have no idea how it’s used
    

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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
    

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31. learn as you go
    

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32. just being better isn’t enough
    

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33. co-maintainers
    

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34. We made it!
    

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35. SimpleCov
    

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37. “legacy” OSS
    

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38. joy of impact
    

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39. you don’t owe people
    

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40. nightmares of integration
    

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41. First step into
    OSS
    

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42. Please report issues!
    

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43. Be nice!
    

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44. Be nice!
    Minimize
    

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45. Be nice!
    Minimize
    Reproduce
    

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47. Discuss!
    

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48. (Maybe) add a PR!
    

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49. OSS vs Work
    

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51. OSS
    Be nice!
    

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52. OSS
    Be nice!
    Your OSS, your time
    

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53. OSS
    Be nice!
    Your OSS, your time
    Adoption takes time
    

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54. OSS
    seemingly even less diverse
    

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55. OSS
    seemingly even less diverse
    is this sustainable?
    

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56. OSS
    seemingly even less diverse
    is this sustainable?
    what about people using OSS for “evil”?
    

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58. friends
    

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59. friends
    

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60. friends
    

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61. friends
    first talks
    

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62. friends
    first talks
    

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63. friends
    first talks
    

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64. friends
    first talks
    

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65. friends
    first talks
    learning
    

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66. friends
    first talks
    learning
    all other projects
    

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67. friends
    first talks
    learning
    all other projects
    

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68. @PragTob
    Enjoy OSS
    

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