Free software won't write itself

Lots of people talk about Free software, not as many contribute to it. It's found on most servers and it's at the core of a lot of businesses. What if won't be developed anymore? What can we do to build our projects on solid foundations and be part of an healthy environment?

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1. Free Software won't write itself Free Software won't write itself Riccardo Magliocchetti Riccardo Magliocchetti #OSCAL2018 #OSCAL2018
2. whoami whoami Pythonista @ Consultant @ Contributor: , Maieutical Labs Italian Digital Transformation Team uwsgi Superset @rmistaken
3. Commitstrip.com
4. Commitstrip.com
5. Bus Factor Bus Factor
6. In 133 popular systems 87 systems (65%) have a factor <= 2 Guilherme Avelino, Leonardo Passos, Marco Tulio Valente A Novel Approach for Estimating Truck Factors
8. Huge imbalance Huge imbalance
9. These days, very few people put in that effort and the vast majority simply bene t from those that do. [...] for a company to re-pay (in either time or money) even a small fraction of the value they derive from the Commons is almost unthinkable. Noah Kantrowitz, https://coderanger.net/funding-foss
10. Cultural problem Cultural problem
11. Free as in beer :( Free as in beer :(
12. The worst enemy you can meet The worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself will always be yourself Friedrich Nietzsche
13. What developers say... What developers say...
14. I am not good enough I am not good enough
15. I don't have time I don't have time
16. That's not my job That's not my job
17. PSA: no entitlement PSA: no entitlement
18. It's the duty of all Free Software developers to steal as much time as they can from their employers for software freedom Jeremy Allison
19. What can I do? What can I do?
20. Fix instead of report Fix instead of report
21. Implement instead of request Implement instead of request
22. Hire Hire
23. Donate Donate
24. How to x developers culture? How to x developers culture?
25. I don't know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I don't know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
26. Torino Hacknight Torino Hacknight A night where a contributor helps A night where a contributor helps participants contributing to a project participants contributing to a project
27. Torino Hacknight Torino Hacknight doing instead of talking lots of technologies doesn't scale high entry barrier
28. Open Source Saturday Torino Open Source Saturday Torino A day contributing to a project A day contributing to a project
29. Open Source Saturday Torino Open Source Saturday Torino copied from Milano more time, less pressure lower entry barrier saturday in front a computer
30. Better ideas? :) Better ideas? :)
31. Conclusions Conclusions If you care about Free Software contribute If you care about a project contribute to it
32. Questions? Questions? github.com/xrmx speakerdeck.com/xrmx @rmistaken menodizero.it
33. All content with the exception of images is released to the public under a license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0