Start hacking already

Start hacking already!

/whoami ● Bert Desmet ● Belgium ● 21 years old ● Student electronics-IT in Ghent (college) ● President CFK ● Student board ● Fedora ● Ambassador ● Spins wrangler And oh! I love beer and chocolate ;-)

about ● How does a community work? ● Why would I? ● How can I do it?

Open source?

Open source...

How does a community work?

Things a project needs.. ● A project ● Software? ● Hardware? ● People ● Developers ● Marketeers ● Designers ● ... ● ...

And a community looks like...? Contributors (5%) Participants (15%) PARTICIPATE SHARE Consumers (80%) SEEK

So, why join? Future User Pool in flu en e c User Pool

and... ● Networking! ● Learn cool things! ● Think about your future! ● Respect ;-)

I'm a hacker.. ● I will write code for awesome projects ● I learn new techniques ● I am not the smartest guy around.. ● I get things :-)

I get things...

I'm an ambassador ● I give (sucky) presentations ● I man booths ● I support other users ● I get to places

I get to places

I am not a designer ● But you can be one! ● But I once made something too :-)

What things? ● Whatever you want! ● As long as you believe in it!

so.... ● http://join.fedoraproject.org ● http://join.sugarlabs.org ● http://maemo.org/community/contribute/ ● http://www.gnome.org/community/ ● ...

Questions? E-mail: bert@bdesmet.be Twitter: @biertie identi.ca: @bdesmet Web: http://bdesmet.be

Start hacking already

by Bert Desmet on Dec 20, 2009

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