1. The Open Source Way
(Open Discussion)
JBCNConf 2016

2. What’s Open Source Software
• Software that is
• community driven
• built in collaborative manner
• open to everyone
• transparent to all involved
• available for change, redistribution, etc

3. Community driven
Community
self motivated and self driven group of people working together
on shared goals
• meritocracy
• passion
• engagement
• self growing - inspiring new members

4. Collaboration and contribution
It’s not all about code
• There are different levels of involvement
• user
• advanced user
• expert
• code contributor
• team member

5. Open Organization

6. Organization contribution
• Take and give - again different levels of contribution
• Influence road map of the project
• Provide contributors
• Become a sponsor
• Run the projects
• Gain better visibility in the industry
That’s how Open Standards are created - by organization
collaboration

7. Open Source Contributor
• Your work is open - whatever you do is public
• By doing the work you gain respect and develop your skills
• Don’t reinvent the wheel - use what’s there and if needed
build it only once
• global collaboration - learn how to efficiently work with
distributed teams
• value your ideas - passion about working with the project

8. Difference between proprietary
and open source
• While working on open source you build your resume -
public references of your experience
• Less hierarchy - respect and expertise are the most
important
• In many cases proprietary software is based on open source
though not mentioned as such
• why to add additional layer of complexity on top of open
source

9. Our Personal Experience
• Be patient
• Be motivated
• Share your ideas
• Learn by helping others
• Don’t be shy
• Learn to accept criticism (“turn off the ego”)
• Take and give back
• Don’t be perfect - prepare for redo things

10. Contribute!
• Fork the repository in GitHub
• Clone the repository / make a branch for your contribution
• Push and create pull requests (from github UI)
• Then keep your fork up to date
• git remote add blessed <repo URL>
• git fetch blessed <branch>
• git rebase blessed/<branch>

11. Stay in touch
• developer.jboss.org
• irc channels
• irc.freenode.net #drools, #jbpm
• mailing lists
• jbpm-usage@googlegroups.com
• jbpm-setup@googlegroups.com
• jbpm-dev@googlegroups.com
• drools-dev@googlegroups.com
• drools-usage@googlegroups.com
• drools-setup@googlegroups.com

12. I WANT YOU
in
Open Source!