Open Source Life

RubyShift 2011 Keynote

Transcript

1. Open Source Life You’re missing out!
2. TL’DR If you don’t do open-source You are missing out On tons of opportunities If you do open-source You should do more.
3. About me
4. Sven Fuchs @svenfuchs http://github.com/svenfuchs Ruby I18n lead Travis CI
5. Sven Fuchs
6. Sven Fuchs
7. What?? http://enemy.fi
8. And so?
9. Reputation Helps a lot
10. You are much smarter than me!
11. If I can do that you can do that
12. How I got there
13. 4 Stories About open source
14. Story 1 Globalize
15. 2006 Sick of PHP and my clients Fell in love with Ruby/Rails Found Globalize Wrote about it
16. Globalize
17. mind.blown!
18. I can do that
19. Was easy or what?
20. Result Learned a lot Friends with great developers Became an “expert” Tons of fun
21. If I can do that you can do that
22. Do this! pick(:love) do |something| n.times do result = work(something) result.publish end end
23. Results Build up skills Connect to great people Become a known “expert” Tons of fun!
24. Story 2 I18n
25. 2007 Tons of Rails I18n plugins Huge pain and mess Round table with all authors Just do it!
27. ZOMG!
28. If I can do that you can do that
29. How to? Pick any project you love Talk to people Contribute and help Repeat
30. How to? Write and review patches Discuss issues and ideas Write docs and blog posts Talk on Twitter, Chats, Mailinglists Help the community
31. Designers Create a logo Make a sticker from the logo Improve a design Sketch out ideas for others
32. Designers Start with small things People will love you! Great portfolio
33. Results Build up skills Connect to great people Be a known “expert” Tons of fun!
34. Story 3 Managers
35. Berlin “Reboot” my life Move to Berlin Short blog post Perfect job
36. Is this a dream? o_O
37. Better developer Expert knowledge Hard skills Soft skills Well connected Well known
38. Better jobs http://intridea.com/2011/4/28/you-should-be-an-open-source-developer
39. Better jobs http://intridea.com/2011/4/28/you-should-be-an-open-source-developer
40. Better jobs http://intridea.com/2011/4/28/you-should-be-an-open-source-developer Being involved with one or more open source projects makes you a more desirable employee.
41. Managers Make your developers do open source Extract code and publish it Organize local developer events Sponsor open source projects
42. Huge benefits Better code Better developers More motivated developers Better applications for jobs Technical credit
43. Story 4 Experts
44. 2011 People help me I know they do fantastic work I help them Great opportunities
45. German rates http://www.gulp.de/kb/st/stdsaetze/sstext.html
46. Long Tail
47. Whatever you do You specialize in something That people want.
48. Long Tail http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9845106-16.html
49. Long Tail http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9845106-16.html
50. Github
51. Long Tail http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9845106-16.html
52. Open Source Life You’re missing out!
53. Open Source If you don’t do open-source You are missing out On tons of opportunities If you do open-source You should do more.
54. Do this! pick(:love) do |something| n.times do result = do(something) result.publish end end
55. If others can do that you can do that
56. But My code sucks It is too complicated I don't have enough time My English isn’t good enough
57. Do Good Things! It makes happy
58. Open Source Feels good because it is good
59. Thanks
60. One more thing
61. RubyShift Find a cool project Ask developers Explain to newcomers Have fun!
62. Tweet! Looking for help? Please tweet details to: #rubyshift