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Sven Fuchs
October 25, 2011
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Open Source Life
RubyShift 2011 Keynote
Sven Fuchs
October 25, 2011
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Transcript
Open Source Life You’re missing out!
TL’DR If you don’t do open-source You are missing out
On tons of opportunities If you do open-source You should do more.
About me
Sven Fuchs @svenfuchs http://github.com/svenfuchs Ruby I18n lead Travis CI
Sven Fuchs
Sven Fuchs
What?? http://enemy.fi
And so?
Reputation Helps a lot
You are much smarter than me!
If I can do that you can do that
How I got there
4 Stories About open source
Story 1 Globalize
2006 Sick of PHP and my clients Fell in love
with Ruby/Rails Found Globalize Wrote about it
Globalize
mind.blown!
I can do that
Was easy or what?
Result Learned a lot Friends with great developers Became an
“expert” Tons of fun
If I can do that you can do that
Do this! pick(:love) do |something| n.times do result = work(something)
result.publish end end
Results Build up skills Connect to great people Become a
known “expert” Tons of fun!
Story 2 I18n
2007 Tons of Rails I18n plugins Huge pain and mess
Round table with all authors Just do it!
None
ZOMG!
If I can do that you can do that
How to? Pick any project you love Talk to people
Contribute and help Repeat
How to? Write and review patches Discuss issues and ideas
Write docs and blog posts Talk on Twitter, Chats, Mailinglists Help the community
Designers Create a logo Make a sticker from the logo
Improve a design Sketch out ideas for others
Designers Start with small things People will love you! Great
portfolio
Results Build up skills Connect to great people Be a
known “expert” Tons of fun!
Story 3 Managers
Berlin “Reboot” my life Move to Berlin Short blog post
Perfect job
Is this a dream? o_O
Better developer Expert knowledge Hard skills Soft skills Well connected
Well known
Better jobs http://intridea.com/2011/4/28/you-should-be-an-open-source-developer
Better jobs http://intridea.com/2011/4/28/you-should-be-an-open-source-developer
Better jobs http://intridea.com/2011/4/28/you-should-be-an-open-source-developer Being involved with one or more open
source projects makes you a more desirable employee.
Managers Make your developers do open source Extract code and
publish it Organize local developer events Sponsor open source projects
Huge benefits Better code Better developers More motivated developers Better
applications for jobs Technical credit
Story 4 Experts
2011 People help me I know they do fantastic work
I help them Great opportunities
German rates http://www.gulp.de/kb/st/stdsaetze/sstext.html
Long Tail
Whatever you do You specialize in something That people want.
Long Tail http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9845106-16.html
Long Tail http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9845106-16.html
Github
Long Tail http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9845106-16.html
Open Source Life You’re missing out!
Open Source If you don’t do open-source You are missing
out On tons of opportunities If you do open-source You should do more.
Do this! pick(:love) do |something| n.times do result = do(something)
result.publish end end
If others can do that you can do that
But My code sucks It is too complicated I don't
have enough time My English isn’t good enough
Do Good Things! It makes happy
Open Source Feels good because it is good
Thanks
One more thing
RubyShift Find a cool project Ask developers Explain to newcomers
Have fun!
Tweet! Looking for help? Please tweet details to: #rubyshift