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Dishwashers, Software, and Open Source

Peter Sobot
October 08, 2014

Dishwashers, Software, and Open Source

Also known as "How to fix a Dishwasher (and also Software)." Presented at TWG on October 8th, 2014.

Peter Sobot

October 08, 2014
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  1. “IT’S ” BROKEN “It’s broken? Do you know what’s wrong

    with it? I can get someone out there to take a look next week or so, maybe.” aside!
  2. If you care about fixing something, you need to be

    more descriptive than “broken”. aside!
  3. If we can’t look in the black box, then we

    can guess at what happens inside.
  4. DIRTY DISHES DISHWASHER “BROKEN” DIRTY DISHES opaque black box WATER

    POWER HEAT NO WATER NOISE Why is the machine not draining? SOAP
  5. “I’m pretty sure the drain pump is broken.” “Oh, that’s

    easy to fix - I’ll order you a new one online and you can install it yourself.”
  6. If we can’t look in the black box, then we

    can guess at what happens inside.
  7. Open source means that we can look inside the box

    and fix problems more easily.
  8. Most software we all use is open source. We can’t

    be afraid to look “inside the box” and fix things.