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
   

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2. whoami
   whoami
   Pythonista @
   Consultant @
   Contributor: ,
   Maieutical Labs
   Italian Digital Transformation Team
   uwsgi Superset
   @rmistaken
   

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3. Commitstrip.com
   

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4. Commitstrip.com
   

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5. Bus Factor
   Bus Factor
   

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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
   

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8. Huge imbalance
   Huge imbalance
   

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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
   

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10. Cultural problem
    Cultural problem
    

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11. Free as in beer :(
    Free as in beer :(
    

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12. The worst enemy you can meet
    The worst enemy you can meet
    will always be yourself
    will always be yourself
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    

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13. What developers say...
    What developers say...
    

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14. I am not good enough
    I am not good enough
    

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15. I don't have time
    I don't have time
    

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16. That's not my job
    That's not my job
    

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17. PSA: no entitlement
    PSA: no entitlement
    

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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
    

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19. What can I do?
    What can I do?
    

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20. Fix instead of report
    Fix instead of report
    

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21. Implement instead of request
    Implement instead of request
    

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22. Hire
    Hire
    

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23. Donate
    Donate
    

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24. How to x developers culture?
    How to x developers culture?
    

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25. I don't know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
    I don't know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
    

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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
    

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27. Torino Hacknight
    Torino Hacknight
    doing instead of talking
    lots of technologies
    doesn't scale
    high entry barrier
    

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28. Open Source Saturday Torino
    Open Source Saturday Torino
    A day contributing to a project
    A day contributing to a project
    

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29. Open Source Saturday Torino
    Open Source Saturday Torino
    copied from Milano
    more time, less pressure
    lower entry barrier
    saturday in front a computer
    

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30. Better ideas? :)
    Better ideas? :)
    

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31. Conclusions
    Conclusions
    If you care about Free Software contribute
    If you care about a project contribute to it
    

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32. Questions?
    Questions?
    github.com/xrmx
    speakerdeck.com/xrmx
    @rmistaken
    menodizero.it
    

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33. All content with the exception of images is released to the
    public under a
    license
    Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
    

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