How You Will Create Tomorrow

DevOps Days Charlotte - how open source projects can be started, spread effectively, and how to gain an audience in 2015

1. How You Will Create Tomorrow OR: A Crash Course In Open Source World Domination DevOps Days Charlotte - Nov 2015 Michael DeHaan
2. Background
3. (1) Have An Idea
4. Solve A Problem You Know and Care About
5. Good Ideas Can Come From Anywhere
6. Nothing In Tech Is Sacred
7. Much In Tech Is Cyclical
8. We’re Still Figuring Everything Out
9. Most Things Feel Like 15% Improvements
10. Try Something Crazy: Local Maxima Exist
11. (2) Implement Your Idea / Code
12. Be Lazy Stand On Shoulders Of Giants PyPi / Cloud APIs / frameworks / …
13. Don’t Be Clever
14. Perfect Is The Enemy Of Good
15. #UseComments
16. Be on GitHub
17. Develop In The Open
18. TDD if you can
19. Don’t Be Worried About Code Judgement
20. (3) Get People To Use Your Software
21. “Project Marketing”
22. Write Awesome Docs!
23. Make Users Feel Successful Over Lunch
24. Write Guest Blogs
25. Message Appropriate Mailing Lists / Communities
26. Have A Mailing List Yourself
27. IRC Channel
28. Meetups / Conferences
29. HN/Reddit
30. GitHub
31. Twitter
32. (4) Figure Out How You’re Going To Manage Growth
33. Help People
34. Encourage Positive Interactions
35. Learn How To Say No
36. Explain Progress and Decisions
37. I’ll Say Docs Again
38. Figure Out What You Do When You Don’t Scale
39. Grok Innovator’s Dilemma
40. Be True To Your Original Design Goals
41. Experiment
42. Know When To Say You’re Wrong
43. Know What Things Are Not Important
44. Tech Is Not Zero Sum
45. Celebrate and Learn from Good Design in Other Projects
46. Thanks!