Learn and Grow with Open Source

Materi Presentasi Roadshow GNOME.Asia Summit 2015 Yogyakarta oleh Aji Kisworo Mukti

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1. Learn and grow with Open Source Project Aji Kisworo Mukti
2. Too difficult. Time consuming. Genius Programmer. + Unlimited free time. = Meaningful contribution
3. That’s simply not true. All levels of coding skills + commitment = Successful Open Source Project
4. I’m a beginner, give me more clue. Image courtesy of shutterstock.com.
5. Report a bug • One of the most important thing in a project • Try find a bug in project you use, report it. • If you don’t, developers won’t find and fix them. • Take time and write-up into project’s bug tracking system. • Verify bug and improve the tickets. Is a different version? different platform?
6. Write a documentation • Is the first thing when you exploring new project. Documentation. • Then you will looking for an example. How to use it. • For example a few screenshots will help new users. • If you more, you can contribute to project’s wiki or official site.
7. Answer a question • Is an investment in the project as much as writing code. • A great place to start is Stackoverflow.
8. Blog your experiences • Yes. Write everything about project’s you use. Installation, setup and configuration, problem and how to solve it.
9. Give a talk at a user group meeting • Transfer knowledge with face-to-face meetup, no higher bandwidth then that. • Give short presentation of favorite piece of project.
10. Find the right project to contribute to I want to get started in open source, but what project should I work on? The best project to contribute to is one that you actively use
11. Learn and Grow • A project you already use is going to give you the most motivation. • Helping the open source community will become an everyday part of your life as a software developer. • And open source software will be the better for your contributions.
12. Start Now Sumber: https://blog.newrelic.com/2014/05/05/open-source_gettingstarted/