How open source communities communicate

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1. How open source communities communicate Asheesh Laroia asheesh@openhatch.org

2. (Goals of this talk)

3. (about me and OpenHatch)

4. Part I. Discovering Linux, and my first contribution

5. [paulproteus@host] $

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11. Don't panic

12. "Please help me recover my data. I will perform any

    test or run any program you recommend...."

13. “That reminds me...”

14. Replaying journal.. 0 transactions replayed Checking S+tree.. Bad root block

    4294967295. (--rebuild-tree did not complete) ok Checking Semantic tree... check_semantic_tree: no root directory found Aborted

15. A new fsck!

16. What worked about my email • Post to the right

    mailing list • I read the docs • Provided anything that looked relevant • Patience

17. Am I a contributor yet?

18. Reflection: 80% of success is showing up

19. Part II. Xboxes and IRC

20. Xbox

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23. [19:35:09] <t4nk> hello? [19:35:21] <t4nk> Xbox linx people :D [19:35:44]

    <t4nk> I need a bit of help. How can I boot into single user mode on the xbox- original?

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25. 00:57 -!- Arti has joined #xbox-linux 00:57 <Arti> hi 00:57

    <catfish> hi 00:57 * paulproteus sticks his head up 00:59 <Arti> im on my cell 00:59 <Arti> :-)

26. 00:58 <catfish> !google video Linux Zoran 00:58 <@xbox-logger> http://www.cicese.mx/~mirsev /Linux/DC10plus/

27. [09:59:30] --> mib_0x1ww2 has joined #xbox-linux [09:59:45] <mib_0x1ww2> http://cbe005.chat.mibbit.com/? server=irc.genevairc.net&channe

    l=%23choosinghats. Christian chat channel! visit when able! [09:59:47] <-- mib_0x1ww2 has left #xbox-linux

28. 01:33 <catfish> what hapopens if u tell it to spell

    quit? 01:34 <catfish> with the /

29. 01:34 <paulproteus> !spell "/quit" 01:34 <paulproteus> !spell yourr 01:34 <@xbox-logger>

    your

30. 01:34 <paulproteus> ! spell /yourr 01:34 <@xbox-logger> /your

31. 01:34 <paulproteus> ! spell /quitt 01:34 <@xbox-logger> /quit 01:34 <paulproteus>

    Hmm.
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33. <most> btw, i think we can officially link to the

    wiki on the website now, it has proven to be good :-)

34. Part III. User groups and bug trackers

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36. “The best place for us to have a meeting... would

    be a Western suburb of Detroit.”

37. “We also don't need to be drunk within 10 minutes,

    maybe 30.”

38. (Enhance a bug report.)

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41. “Very few things are as tempting as a link to

    the problem.” sscce.org
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45. Part IV. Fake it 'til you make it

46. Use this stuff yourself

47. (It took me five years to submit a patch)

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49. Hey Asheesh -- sorry we missed this the first time...

    the patch didn't go through... Could you try to get an svn co, apply your patch, and then submit an 'svn diff' ? Thanks! JDH

50. OK, it's in -- thanks! JDH

51. Part 5. A tour of ways to contribute

52. make.wordpress.org/ polyglots/ libreoffice.org/ get-involved/ ux-visual-designers/

53. Part VI. Workshop info!

54. Part VII. (Extras) zoph, fester2webdav, debian key fail

55. Thanks! Sign up + info: http://smarturl.it/ opensource