This talk was given to the 2nd year MEng Computer Science students at the University of Bristol. It is a talk about my experiences in Open Source and working with a global community. The audio and screencast of this presentation is at: https://vimeo.com/113033350

1. A Journey through
open source
Matt Hamilton
matt@enquos.com

2. A bit about me
• Graduated University of Bristol 2000
• Technical Director, Netsight (2001-2014)
• Director, Plone Foundation (2004-2005,2008-2013)
• Consultant, enquos (2014 - )
• Maintainer of Underscore mailing list
• Run the BMEX network
• Avid tinkerer of motorbike and van

3. What sort of job do
you want?

4. life
What sort of job do
you want?

5. Wait? I don’t graduate
for another 2 years?!

10. Travel the world

11. A global, well traveled community creates
NaturalDiversity
“Diversity” does not mean “women”. It means different countries, backgrounds,
sexual preferences, clients and pants. The Plone community is tolerant of slim,
straight, tall, short, unisex, imported and even apple bottom.
The 2013 Plone Foundation
Executive Board: 7 people
representing 4 countries, 5
accents, 3 sexual
preferences (openly), non-profit,
for profit, big
companies, individual
contractors, and
personalities ranging from
troll to peace maker.
Plone.org @eleddy
And we love working together to boot. o/

12. Arnhem, Netherlands
Brasilia, Brazil
Budapest, Hungary
Dublin, Ireland
Geneva, Switzerland
Gothenburg, Sweden
Munich, Germany
Naples, Italy
Pennsylvania, USA
San Francisco, USA
Schruns, Austria
Seattle, USA
Sorrento, Italy
Tallinn, Estonia
Valletta, Malta
Vienna, Austria
Washington DC, USA

20. A new journey
begins…

24. the first comprehensive
system to track,
analyze, organize and
securely store nutrition,
fitness and health data,
while providing tools
for optimizing healthy
choices

32. Questions?
matt@enquos.com
@hammertoe