giving (and taking) back - mike fiedler

Giving (and Taking) Back

or, “What to do on boring daysthat we never have”

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Mike FiedlerOperationsDatadog.comTwitter: @mikefiedlerGitHub: @miketheman

OpsSchool.orgChef Community

Roller Derby RefSkydiver

©Alex Erde

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What is Open Source?

Wikimedia Commons

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Do you use F/OSS?

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80% of commercial apps to use Open Source by 2012 -Gartner, 2008

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What are YOU doing to help?

Flickr: DonkeyHotey

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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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Bullshit.

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Learning

codecademy.com

codeschool.com

learncodethehardway.org

coursera.org

developers.google.com/university/

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Read things

Project’s website or README

Contribution/Testing Guidelines

Open Issues, Mailing list

Contributor License Agreement (CLA)

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Get involved

get the code

run the tests

make the changes

run the tests

share your patch

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Commit messages

Make NO assumptions

Describe with your words

Why, How, What

Include references

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TDD, BDD, RDD

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MaintainingOpen Source

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Hell is full of good meanings, but heaven is

full of good works.

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Get excited!

Flickr: NoahSussman

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Work for free!

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Things you can do

provide low bar to entry

write down your intentions

lead by example

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You are NOTyour code.

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You are NOTalone.

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Tools of the TradeGitHub

BitBucket

Google Code

SourceForge

Travis-CI

Drone.io

CloudBees

coveralls.io

codeclimate.com

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Public Domain

Apache v2MIT

LGPL v2.1

GPL v2

GPL v3BSD 2-Clause

BSD 3-Clause

Affero GPLLGPL v3

Creative Commons

WFTPL

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Public Domain

Apache v2MIT

LGPL v2.1

GPL v2

GPL v3BSD 2-Clause

BSD 3-Clause

Affero GPLLGPL v3

Creative Commons

WFTPL

ChooseALicense.com

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Let dead code die24

Publishing good code is hard

Flickr: elibrody

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