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How-to: Your First Contribution - Oct. 11, 2016
The document provides tips for making a first contribution to an open source project. It recommends identifying an area of inspiration or motivation, making friends in the open source community by attending meetups or conferences, observing project discussions and dynamics first before contributing, being proactive by taking on issues or tickets, asking for help when needed, and contributing with confidence. The overall goal is to get involved and gain skills through contributing to open source projects.
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- 1. @texasmichelle How-to: Your FirstContribution Michelle Casbon O’Reilly Open Source 101 October 11, 2016
- 2. @texasmichelle Michelle • Where Iwork: Qordoba – Director of Data Science • Where I used to work: Idibon • What I love: • Natural language processing • Distributed systems
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- 4. @texasmichelle 1. Identify yourinspiration 2. Identify your motivation 3. Make friends 4. Meet someone you admire 5. Observe first 6. Be proactive 7. Ask for help 8. Be confident how-to: open source
- 5. @texasmichelle 1. Identify yourinspiration • What gets your blood flowing? • A language • A domain • An algorithm • A paradigm • An architecture • A person
- 6. @texasmichelle 2. Identify yourmotivation • What do you want to accomplish? • Build a new project from the ground up? • Master a new language? • Understand a concept better? • Break into a new area?
- 7. @texasmichelle 2. Identify yourmotivation • What result do you want to see? • Fame • Fortune • Eternal happiness • Fountain of youth • Job security • Improved skills • Core engineering • Release management • Project management • Communication Photo: Kim Kardashian West Eva Rinaldi Creative Commons Photo: US Dollars and envelope MediaPhoto.Org Creative Commons
- 8. @texasmichelle 3. Make friends •Go to a meetup • Go to a conference • Ask them about their projects • Ask if they want help • Listen to their stories • Hang out with them • Meet their friends
- 9. @texasmichelle 4. Meet someoneyou admire • Go to workshops. They’re interactive. • O’Reilly office hours & book signings • Ask for introductions • Be a track host • Propose a talk
- 10. @texasmichelle 4. Meet someoneyou admire • Don’t skip the happy hour • Shake their hand, thank them for their talk/book/contribution • Ask good questions & take notes • Get a selfie with them
- 11. @texasmichelle 5. Observe first •Be a creeper. Lurk moar. • Dev mailing list • JIRA • Identify the friends/foes/alliances • How respectful are people with each other? • Learn from others’ mistakes • Where do the tire fires break out? How often? Photo: Tires on fire Mstyslav Chernov Creative Commons
- 12. @texasmichelle 5. Observe first •What pushes people’s buttons? • How many women are involved? How are they treated? • How productive are discussions? Are they collaborative or argumentative? • What are the outcomes of those discussions? Code pushes or endless documentation? Photo: Tires on fire Mstyslav Chernov Creative Commons
- 13. @texasmichelle 6. Be proactive •Go digging • Grab a ticket • If you don’t know how to do something, learn it • Learn by doing Photo: Bury Vox Efx Creative Commons
- 14. @texasmichelle 7. Ask forhelp • Stack overflow • JIRA ticket • Dev mailing list • Your new friends • Experts
- 15. @texasmichelle 8. Be confident •Don’t take s*** from anyone • Stand up for yourself • Don’t be a jerk • Just do it • Don’t let your boss stop you
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- 20. @texasmichelle 1. Identify yourinspiration 2. Identify your motivation 3. Make friends 4. Meet someone you admire 5. Observe first 6. Be proactive 7. Ask for help 8. Be confident open source how-to: open source
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