1. Giving (and Taking)
Back
or, “What to do on boring days
that we never have”
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2. Mike Fiedler
Operations
Datadog.com
Twitter: @mikefiedler
GitHub: @miketheman
OpsSchool.org
Chef Community
Roller Derby Ref
Skydiver
©Alex Erde
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3. Wikimedia Commons
What is Open Source?
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4. Do you use F/OSS?
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5. 80% of commercial apps
to use Open Source by
2012 -Gartner, 2008
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6. What are YOU
doing to
help?
Flickr: DonkeyHotey
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7. Familiar?
“That widget in that doodad is
broken.”
“So fix it!”
“But I don’t know how to code.”
“Ah well...”
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8. Bullshit.
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9. Learning
codecademy.com
codeschool.com
learncodethehardway.org
coursera.org
developers.google.com/university/
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10. Read things
Project’s website or README
Contribution/Testing Guidelines
Open Issues, Mailing list
Contributor License Agreement (CLA)
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11. Get involved
get the code
run the tests
make the changes
run the tests
share your patch
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12. Commit messages
Make NO assumptions
Describe with your words
Why, How, What
Include references
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13. TDD, BDD, RDD
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14. Maintaining
Open Source
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15. Hell is full of good
meanings, but heaven is
full of good works.
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16. Flickr: NoahSussman
Get excited!
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17. Work for free!
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18. Things you can do
provide low bar to entry
write down your intentions
lead by example
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19. You are NOT
your code.
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20. You are NOT
alone.
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21. Tools of the Trade
GitHub
Travis-CI
BitBucket
Drone.io
Google Code
CloudBees
SourceForge
coveralls.io
codeclimate.com
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22. MIT
Creative Commons
Apache v2
GPL v3
BSD 2-Clause
Public Domain
BSD 3-Clause
WFTPL
GPL v2
LGPL v2.1
LGPL v3
Affero GPL
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23. MIT
Creative Commons
Apache v2
GPL v3
BSD 2-Clause
ChooseALicense.com
Public Domain
BSD 3-Clause
WFTPL
GPL v2
LGPL v2.1
LGPL v3
Affero GPL
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24. Let dead code die
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25. Flickr: elibrody
Publishing good code is hard
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