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Path to your next contribution (Juneteenth edit...

Path to your next contribution (Juneteenth editition)

Today Open Source is ubiquitous and comprises nearly 80% – 90% of the code in a “typical” application. There is a need to use Open Source to stay competitive, but what about the need to use open source to advance your career?

In this talk, I will talk through actionable ways to make open-source contributions to grow your career.

Brian Douglas

June 19, 2020
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  1. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza According to the annual BlackDuck open source 360

    survey: • Open source is now present in IT workloads in 90% of organizations • Sixty-six percent (66%) of companies surveyed now contribute to open source projects - • Of 1,071 applications audited throughout 2016, 96% contained open source
  2. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza According to the annual Linux Foundation/Dice Jobs Report

    (300 hiring managers and 1800 open-source professional surveyed): • Demand for open source professionals is increasing rapidly - Eighty-nine percent (89%) of hiring managers say it’s difficult to find open source talent • Sixty percent (60%) of companies are now looking for open source full-time hires • Sixty-seven percent (67%) of managers say hiring open source professionals will increase more than other areas in the next 6 months
  3. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza I believe we ought to do all we

    can and seek to lift ourselves by our own boot straps, but it’s a cruel jest to say to a bootless man he ought to lift himself by his own boostraps. MLK
  4. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza 1. Who do I talk to? 2. What

    do I work on? 3. How do I work on this?
  5. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Request for contributions nteract (js, ts, py) cockroachdb

    (go) codeforpdx (ts) webhintio (ts) github.com/open-sauced/open-sauced/discussions/725