Slides from Vincent Batts' Talk at DockerCon SF 2015 Description: Gain inspiration and confidence to contribute in a mutually beneficial way. To become more than just a consumer of the ecosystem, develop the project yourself and profit your singular initiative. Whether you are looking for enterprise ready solutions, to make development life easier, or you’d like to see certain new features, making contributions to the greater community with a public spirit ensures the continued growth and health of the Docker project. Through personal stories of acceptance and concessions, I will share practical tips and lessons learned as a regular open source contributor and particularly involved Docker collaborator.

1. Contribute and Collaborate
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Vincent Batts (@vbatts)
@dockercon

2. $> finger $(whoami)
Login: vbatts Name: Vincent Batts
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Plan:
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$> id -Gn
devel docker redhat openshift slackware

3. Realizations

4. Realizations
•Consumption and Availability

5. Realizations
•Consumption and Availability
•OMG These are real people!

6. Realizations
•Consumption and Availability
•OMG These are real people!
•Those people could include me!?

7. Realizations
•Consumption and Availability
•OMG These are real people!
•Those people could include me!?
•What can I do?

8. •Docker & Open Source
•The Scene
•What Works?
•What’s Next?

9. •Docker & Open Source
•The Scene
•What Works?
•What’s Next?

10. Docker & Open Source

11. Docker & Open Source
• Contributing is baked in learning

12. Docker & Open Source
• Contributing is baked in learning
• Corporate collaborating and contributing

13. Docker & Open Source
• Contributing is baked in learning
• Corporate collaborating and contributing

14. Docker & Open Source
• Contributing is baked in learning
• Corporate collaborating and contributing
• Speed & breadth of contributions
- Seasoned and new comers

15. Docker & Open Source
• Contributing is baked in learning
• Corporate collaborating and contributing
• Speed & breadth of contributions
- Seasoned and new comers
• No one likes politics

16. •Docker & Open Source
•The Scene
•What Works?
•What’s Next?

17. The Scene
First

18. The Scene
Now

19. The Scene
• Vision and user experience

20. The Scene
• Vision and user experience
• Sentiment for approach

21. The Scene
• Vision and user experience
• Sentiment for approach
• Paradigm mixed w/ business

22. The Scene
• Vision and user experience
• Sentiment for approach
• Paradigm mixed w/ business
- Long-game mixed w/ end-game

23. •Docker & Open Source
•The Scene
•What Works?
•What’s Next?

24. What Works?
• Set intentions

25. What Works?
• Set intentions
• Issue/Design/Discussion first; Then pull-request

26. What Works?
• Set intentions
• Issue/Design/Discussion first; Then pull-request
• Remember, you’re working with people

27. What Works?
• Set intentions
• Issue/Design/Discussion first; Then pull-request
• Remember, you’re working with people
• Discover their humors and dispositions

28. What Works?
• Set intentions
• Issue/Design/Discussion first; Then pull-request
• Remember, you’re working with people
• Discover their humors and dispositions
• Define your use case

29. What Works?
• Set intentions
• Issue/Design/Discussion first; Then pull-request
• Remember, you’re working with people
• Discover their humors and dispositions
• Define your use case
• Rebasing

30. What Works?
• Set intentions
• Issue/Design/Discussion first; Then pull-request
• Remember, you’re working with people
• Discover their humors and dispositions
• Define your use case
• Rebasing
• Patience. Comprise. Understanding. (remember we’re all people)

31. •Docker & Open Source
•The Scene
•What Works?
•What’s Next?

32. What’s Next?
• Meet these real people

33. What’s Next?
• Meet these real people
• Discover

34. What’s Next?
• Meet these real people
• Discovery
• Contribute

35. Thank you
Vincent Batts (@vbatts)
@dockercon