How getting involved in open projects and communities can enhance job opportunities and employable skills. Case studies with Jolla and Sailfish OS.

1. Carol Chen
@cybette

2. INTRODUCTION
● Jolla is a smartphone company from Finland. We are developing
mobile devices and Sailfish Operating System. http://jolla.com
● Sailfish OS is an open, mobile-optimized operating system with the
flexibility, ubiquity and stability of the Linux core and a cutting
edge user experience built with the renowned Qt™ platform.
http://sailfishos.org
● Carol Chen – that's me – I am the Community Chief at Jolla. I
engage with Jolla users and Sailfish OS developers from around the
world through Social Media, community meetings, and events.
● Contact: carol.chen@jolla.com; cybette on Twitter, Freenode IRC,
LinkedIn, Skype, Weibo etc.

3. THE JOLLA COMMUNITY
● Since the beginning, the community has been at the
heart of our idea generation, technology
development and distribution.
● http://together.jolla.com/
● http://jolla.com/contact

4. DOING IT TOGETHER

5. SAILFISH OS ARCHITECTURE

6. SAILFISH OS CORE + MIDDLEWARE
● http://github.com/nemomobile
● https://review.merproject.org
● http://gitweb.merproject.org
● https://github.com/nemomobile-packages
● https://github.com/mer-packages/
● https://github.com/sailfish-sdk
● https://github.com/sailfishos
● Support at IRC: #nemomobile #mer #sailfishos on
irc.freenode.net

7. SAILFISH OS SDK
● Downloadable from http://www.sailfishos.org
● Based on Qt Creator, a cross-platform IDE for making Qt-
based applications
● Runs on Linux, Windows, MacOS X. Comes with tutorials,
documentation.
● Requires VirtualBox virtual machine software to run cross-
compilation process and emulator
● Support at IRC: #sailfishos on irc.freenode.net
● Mailing list: https://lists.sailfishos.org/cgi-
bin/mailman/listinfo/devel

8. OPEN SOURCE + COMMUNITY
● What is Open Source Community and why is it
important?
● Source of learning
● Feedback from peers
● Experience on “real world” projects
● Networking
● Job opportunities

9. LEARNING & FEEDBACK
● Open source code
● Available online / globally – all you need is internet
access
● Repositories: Github, Bitbucket etc.
● Code reviews
● Discussion forums

10. EXPERIENCE & NETWORKING
● Volunteering, “talkoot”
● MeeGo Network Finland
● Devaamo Finland - http://devaamo.fi/
● FOSDEM - http://fosdem.org/
● LinuxCon, Akademy...
● Other tech / open source events

11. JOB
OPPORTUNITIES

12. JOB OPPORTUNITIES
● Case John Brooks
● Case Internships
● Case Carol Chen