How to contribute back to Open Source
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This document discusses how to contribute to open source projects. It recommends starting small by working on your own projects and then contributing to smaller open source projects. It suggests picking a simple project like a website to start with. It also provides tips for how to communicate as an open source contributor, such as being polite, using bug databases and documentation, and asking others for help. The overall message is that starting with small contributions and prioritizing communication and documentation will help new contributors get involved in open source.
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In this talk I'm going to talk about lessons learned from building Sensorama (http://www.sensorama.org), an Open Source sensor platform for data science. The main theme of the talk will be Open Source: what is great about it, what is bad and how you must become a part of the Open Source community to really move quickly and benefit from it. For this project, I did both the code and the design, so you'll have a chance to see how solo-developer deals with time/feature constraints, which tools I've used and what my approach towards development in this mode is. In other words: I'll tell you what I did to stay sane. If the iOS development were a walk in a dark city park, this talk may turn out to be your flashlight. If you like it, star it at GitHub: https://github.com/wkoszek/sensorama-ios
Agenda
https://www.meetup.com/svmobiledev/events/235836893/
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https://github.com/wkoszek/talks/tree/master/svmobiledev2016
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Fake it till you make it presentation https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2014/223
Designing for Future Hardware https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2015/801/
References
WWW: http://www.sensorama.org
GitHub (code): https://github.com/wkoszek/sensorama-ios
GitHub (artwork): https://github.com/wkoszek/sensorama-artwork
Author
WWW: http://www.koszek.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/wkoszek
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wkoszek/
Email: wojciech (at) koszek.com
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Understanding your users' behaviours, needs and motivations is key to design a kickass web product.
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- 4. 1 Intro
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- 6. Question B: How often do you use it?
- 7. Question C: How often do you have an issue of some sort with it?
- 8. Question D: Any companies interested in contributing?
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- 14. Then came a job
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- 17. procrastination
- 18. perfectionism
- 22. It's all volunteers with scarce time
- 23. it's more about free software than you
- 24. Imperfect tool is better than none
- 25. Even bad public tools have a value - code reference
- 26. Do you really care when people make mistakes?
- 27. I don't
- 28. Then I stumbled upon..
- 30. And books
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- 34. “What should I work on?”
- 35. “How about....”
- 36. “How about....”
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- 39. Project is the best. Easier to see the pieces you need.
- 40. Plus you have a target
- 43. Website is good = immediate gratification
- 44. Small = easy to see all elements
- 45. And nobody sees your mistakes
- 48. Most people feel publish = Internet boom and becoming exposed
- 49. Truth?
- 50. Nobody notices
- 51. Use a simple project as a battlefield
- 52. GitHub is perfect for this. Easy to create and to remove repositories
- 58. Become a user 1st is a good idea
- 59. You know what you want
- 60. Example of the process: Website
- 61. Say to yourself: “What do I need for my project”
- 63. I used Middleman
- 64. I used Middleman
- 65. How about I use some plugins?
- 66. How about I use some plugins?
- 67. How about I use some plugins?
- 68. How about I use some plugins?
- 69. How about I use some plugins?
- 70. No answer. Probably project is dead
- 71. Next
- 72. Spellchecker?
- 73. How about I use some plugins?
- 75. Spellchecker?
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- 81. Bug database
- 82. Be polite
- 85. Documentation
- 87. Tests
- 88. Translations
- 90. For companies:
- 91. Ask peers around you
- 92. Ask your Legal Team first!
- 93. Experiences from the current company:
- 94. Amount of value from open source = gigantic
- 95. Most of the custom stuff we added could/will be open sourced
- 97. 5 Summary
- 98. Start small
- 99. Your projects and then small open source stuff
- 100. At least that's what I did
- 101. Then you'll have more work than you want
- 103. Current pet project
- 104. Current pet project
- 105. Q/A
- 106. the end