Build your career one contribution at a time

You can often hear things like:

- "You should start contributing to an open source project!"
- "Why don't you just send a pull request?"
- "Doing OSS stuff will be great for your career."

from experienced developers.

While indeed it can be a great for a programmer's career, going down the open source contributor's path can be daunting. As a seasoned open source contributor, I'd like to share some tips and tricks on how to become a contributor, and how you and your company can benefit from it.

I want to show that there's much more to contributing than "just" sending pull requests — answering questions, blogging, testing, and more, are all important parts of open source contributions.

Transcript

1. Robert Bašić ~ PHPSrbija #24 Build your career one contribution at a time Robert Bašić https://robertbasic.com/ @robertbasic
2. Robert Bašić ~ PHPSrbija #24 It’s a recommendation
3. Robert Bašić ~ PHPSrbija #24 Why am I giving this talk?
4. Robert Bašić ~ PHPSrbija #24 Why should you care?
5. Robert Bašić ~ PHPSrbija #24 Who contributes to OSS?
6. Robert Bašić ~ PHPSrbija #24 It’s not “just” a pull request
7. Robert Bašić ~ PHPSrbija #24 Why do people contribute to open source?
8. Robert Bašić ~ PHPSrbija #24 Software is written by humans, for humans, after all
9. Robert Bašić ~ PHPSrbija #24 Why should you contribute to open source?
10. Robert Bašić ~ PHPSrbija #24 Want to join a company?
11. Robert Bašić ~ PHPSrbija #24 Good for companies
12. Robert Bašić ~ PHPSrbija #24 Want to hire?
13. Robert Bašić ~ PHPSrbija #24 How to find a project?
14. Robert Bašić ~ PHPSrbija #24 Learn about the project
15. Robert Bašić ~ PHPSrbija #24 Start small
16. Robert Bašić ~ PHPSrbija #24 Danger zone
17. Robert Bašić ~ PHPSrbija #24 Patching the code
18. Robert Bašić ~ PHPSrbija #24 Answer questions
19. Robert Bašić ~ PHPSrbija #24 Keep a blog
20. Robert Bašić ~ PHPSrbija #24 Documentation
21. Robert Bašić ~ PHPSrbija #24 Bug triage
22. Robert Bašić ~ PHPSrbija #24 Patching the code
23. Robert Bašić ~ PHPSrbija #24 Professional takeaway
24. Robert Bašić ~ PHPSrbija #24 Personal takeaway
25. Robert Bašić ~ PHPSrbija #24 Thanks! Questions? Send a pull request!