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.

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1. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza The path to your next contribution
2. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza
3. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza My path into open source
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6. Developer Advocate Brian Douglas
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8. @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
9. @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
10. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Open source is valuable to your career
11. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza 1. Find contributions 2. The onboarding experience 3. Making OSS sustainable
12. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza 1. Find and track new open source contributions
13. @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
14. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza The path into open source is broken
15. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Unintentional Gate Keeping
16. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza There are still missing parts to getting involved in open source.
17. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza GitHub is the place to discover open source
18. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza but every-time I find a project I don't know where to start
19. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza opensource.guide
20. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza goodfirstissue.dev
21. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza codetriage.com
22. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza If you don’t got sauce, then you lost ~Gucci Mane
23. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza I made an open source project to manage my open source contributions
24. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Open Sauced v0
25. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza a way to save and take notes on projects to rediscover later
26. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Fetching saved notes Saving notes GitHub V4 API
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28. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Fetching saved notes Saving notes GitHub V4 API GitHub Actions to keep my goals in sync.
29. https://github.com/open-sauced
30. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza 2. The onboarding experience
31. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza 1. Who do I talk to? 2. What do I work on? 3. How do I work on this?
32. https://github.com/graphql/graphiql
33. https://github.com/graphql/graphiql/contribute
34. CONTRIBUTING.md
35. https://github.com/graphql/graphiql/issues/571
36. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Discord is a place to access information about graphql/graphiql
37. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Why solve this problem?
38. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza 3. Sustainable OSS contributions
39. https://github.com/features/sponsors
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43. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Sponsorship > Mentorship
44. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza This is not about money. its about access.
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46. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza 3. Sustainable OSS contributions (by connecting contributors to projects)
47. https://opensauced.pizza
48. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Join our discord. Let me invest my time into you.
49. https://opensauced.pizza
50. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Request for contributions nteract (js, ts, py) cockroachdb (go) codeforpdx (ts) webhintio (ts) github.com/open-sauced/open-sauced/discussions/725
51. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza End Gate Keeping. Start Sponsoring
52. bdougieYO bdougie
53. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza don’t get lost. stay saucy.
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