A presentation I gave to high school students in an AP Computer Science class at Cherry Creek High School.

1. Developing on/with
Open Source Software
Austin Burdine

2. $ whoami
• Creek Grad
• Sophomore @
• Web developer (php, javascript, html, css)
• Open Source enthusiast

3. • What is Open Source?
• Benefits of Open Source
• Business Models of Open Source
• Tools for Open Source development
• Personal experience with Open Source
Outline

4. Have you used open source?

5. What is Open Source?
• History
• “Free” vs. “Open-Source”
• Hardware vs. Software
• More notable examples

6. Benefits of Open Source
• Expertise Sharing
• “Reinventing the wheel”
• Security (web)

7. Open Source business models
• Contract/Support based
• Hosting Based
• Donation based
• Organic community based

8. Tools for Open-Source Development
• Git (Version Control)
• https://github.com
• Slack/IRC (Team Communication)
• https://slack.com/
• Linting (Code Style)
• Continuous Integration (Testing)
• https://travis-ci.org/

9. Personal Experience with Open-Source
• Ghost
• https://blog.acburdine.me/ghost/about/
• https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/
• Ember.JS / Ember-CLI
• https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js
• Pixie Query Builder
• https://github.com/usmanhalalit/pixie/

10. How / Why you should get involved with Open Source
• How
• Contribution Guidelines
• Community
• Why
• Good code
• Collaborative development
• Resume builder

11. Projects by language
• PHP
• Wordpress, Symfony, Composer
• Javascript / NodeJS
• Ghost, Ember, Angular, React, jQuery
• Java
• LWJGL, Eclipse, Minecraft mods (lots are open source!)
• C
• PHP, NodeJS, MySQL, Linux

12. questions?

13. https://acburdine.me
austin@acburdine.me
Twitter: @acburdine