How to get a job like mine

A presentation to PSU students on Feb 1, 2013. About how I got started in open source, what my job is like and what my volunteer work is like. And some advice for people who want to work with and in the open source community.

Transcript

1. How to get a job like mine Selena Deckelmann Data Architect, Mozilla @selenamarie selena@chesnok.com
2. How I was recruited into Computer Science
4. The path to becoming an open source contributor
5. What's open source software? (free, libre?)
6. 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.
7. What's an open source community?
8. 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.
9. Do people get paid to work on or with open source software?
10. 74% of surveyed are paid to contribute to open source in some way http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/wiki/index.php/Open_Source_-_Demographics
11. 60-70% of open source contributors Have a college degree (of some kind) http://widi.berlios.de/paper/study.html
12. 2-5% of open source contributors are women http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/58218
13. What a typical day for me looks like
16. Distributed team rule: Always Be Communicating • IRC, Skype, Vidyo, Phone, Twitter, IM • Email • Bugzilla • planet.mozilla.org • A lot of animated gifs
17. What community managers do
20. Community manager rules: THERE ARE NO RULES
21. Community manager rules: Always be measuring • Contributions • Change over time • New contributors • Write about it • Give talks about it
23. Working in public
24. Creating conferences and user groups
25. Learning communities and you
26. Join us: Come to PyLadiesPDX! Come to PDXPUG! Come to the Data Science Meetup! Check out http://calagator.org