How participating in Open-source made me a better DevOps And that actually started not just as a professional system engineer, but much earlier as a normal end-user also as a power user.

1. How contributing to Open-source
made me a better DevOps
Ahmed AbouZaid
@aabouzaid

2. About
Ahmed AbouZaid
A passionate DevOps Engineer, author and Free/Open source geek
who loves the community.
Automation, data, and metrics are my preferred areas.
I have a built-in monitoring chip, and too lazy to do anything manually :D
Blog | Github | Twitter

3. Overview
● What and why Open-source?
● Contributions from end-user to DevOps.
● How contributing makes you better?
● I did it, you can do it too!
● Where to start?
● Questions.

4. What and why Open-source?
● Freedom.
● Efficiency.
● Quality.
● Security.
● Flexibility.
● Independency.
● And much more!

5. Contributing from end-user to DevOps
● As an end-user.
● As a power-user.
● As a profissional.

6. How contributing makes you better?
● Giving something back to Open-source.
● Better understanding of the big picture.
● Dealing with different styles smoothly.
● Bring open-source way to your daily work.
● Try new cool stuff outside your job.

7. I did it, you can do it too!
● Select a related project.
● Understand the project … technically!
● It’s not all about tech! Non-tech is important too!
● Start with low-hanging-fruits!
● Go deeper.
● Keep on!

8. Where to start?
● https://opensource.guide/how-to-contribute
● http://up-for-grabs.net
● https://www.firsttimersonly.com
● https://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy

9. With great contributions
comes great responsibility
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10. Questions?
Thanks :-)