How to Become a Hacker?

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How to become a hacker?
(In the 21st century)

Probably you're (just) a geek.

But you want more, right?

Story #1

Lesson #1: Prepare for a long trip.

Story #2

Lesson #2: Find mentors.

Story #3

Lesson #3: Distinguish yourself.

Story #4

https://vimeo.com/22798433

Lesson #4: Go interactive.

Story #5

Lesson #5: Hold your hands.

Story #6

Lesson #6: Play (don't comment).

Story #7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6HCOGj1lNI

Lesson #7: Start now.

Lesson #8: Restart often.

Yet another story

Bad news: your boss will not be your mentor.

Good news: your hacking mentors are alive!

That's probably why you want to be a hacker.

The virtuous circle
and the dangerous triangle
(Three inspiring hackers)

It's hard to be both patient and enthusiastic

It's hard to be both patient and enthusiastic
It's hard to be both enthusiastic and smart

It's hard to be both patient and enthusiastic
It's hard to be both enthusiastic and smart
It's hard to be both smart an...

It's hard to be both patient and enthusiastic
It's hard to be both enthusiastic and smart
It's hard to be both smart an...

It's hard to be both patient and enthusiastic
It's hard to be both enthusiastic and smart
It's hard to be both smart ...

We are more powerful but more impatient.

Hands on!

Fix your email setup
(Demo Gnus)

Marry your text editor
(Demo GNU Emacs)

Master your versioning system
(Demo Git/magit)

Have a TODO list system
(Demo Emacs Org-mode)

Learn how to make a bug report
(Demo bad and good reports)

Scratch your own itch
(Start small)

Scratch other people's itches
(Start small)

Pick up a programming language
(Can't really help on this)

Understand users' environments
(Demo)

Learn how to test
(Demo)

Learn how to read/write english
(Demo)

Postel's law & robustness principle:
"Be conservative in what you do...
...be liberal in what you accept from othe...

A typical free software project

• A website
• .zip/.tar.gz files to install
• Discussion list(s) and IRC channel(s)
• Documentation
• A publicly accessibl...

Example: GNU Emacs

Hands off!

Get a computing culture
(Write... and read)

Get a free software culture
(Read... and write)

"Computer criticism"
(Seymour Papert)

"Learnable programming"
(Brett Victor)

Thanks!

Bastien Guerry
Jan. 18th 2012
bzg@gnu.org

http://lumiere.ens.fr/~guerry/

(Bonus tracks)

How To Become a Hacker
by Eric S. Raymond

http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

Growing the Org-mode community

• Community documentation (Worg)
• A mailing list for both users and developers
• No roa...

The thrill of collaborating

Free software and innovation

Krzysztof Klincewicz, Innovativeness of open source software projects, August 11, 2005

Free Software history

• 1983: Richard Stallman starts the GNU project
• 1984: RMS starts the Free Software Foundation
• 1...

Free licenses history

• 1989 : GPLv1
• 1991 : GPLv2
• 1999 : BSD
• 2001 : CC fondé
• 2002 : CC v1
• 2004 : CC v2
• 2005 :...

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