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- 1. Impact of OpenSource jQuery Dev Summit – New York City October 2015 Anne-Gaëlle Colom
- 2. Anne-Gaëlle Colom Senior Lecturerat the University of Westminster, London, UK Documentation Lead for jQuery Mobile Content Lead for the jQuery Foundation jQuery Board of Directors
- 3. Current Teaching • WebTechnology – 320 1st year students • Advanced Client-side Web Development – 130 2nd year students • Mobile User Experience – 120 3rd year students • Mobile Computing Principles – 100 2nd year students
- 4. 1st Computer -1984
- 5. 1st Website 1995 TeachingHTML - 1996
- 6. 1st Mobile Application- 1997 for district nurses, targeting the Hitachi Possible PMC - 2000 EDEN, EROS, ADAM, EVE, FOSSIL
- 7. 1st JavaScript App:HTML editor in (1998)
- 8. Then … I had2 kids! (1999 and 2002)
- 9. What brought meto jQuery? • Course Leader for BSc Internet Computing / BEng Mobile and Web Computing • Teaching Mobile UI & Mobile Computing Principles since Sept 2005… • Rendering the same content on various devices based on device capabilities and screen size – WURFL – XML – XSLT – WML – CSS – XHTML – PHP • In Oct 2010: “I cannot teach WML anymore (obsolete)!”
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- 11. jQuery Mobile –October 2010 • Developed lecture notes and examples • Discovered bugs • Reported bugs
- 12. jQuery Mobile –March-Nov 2011 • Developed a small project • Discovered & reported bugs • Discovered & reported docs inconsistencies • Gave solutions
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- 15. My New BestFriend!
- 16. November 2011 Starting tofeel the Impact!
- 17. Go ahead fromTodd Parker • rewrite the docs in one voice, • fix inconsistencies, • add more information & examples where necessary.
- 18. GitHub • I’m onPatch level… • I want to be a Master!
- 19. .net Magazine Award “Sortof random, but since you're now a member of the mobile documentation team, now all the glamour begins. There is a .net awards party nov. 24th in London and we're looking for someone to represent the project if we win. Might you be interested?” Todd Parker (jQuery Mobile Lead)
- 20. .net Magazine Award “Sortof random, but since you're now a member of the mobile documentation team, now all the glamour begins. There is a .net awards party nov. 24th in London and we're looking for someone to represent the project if we win. Might you be interested?”
- 21. .net Magazine Award “Sortof random, but since you're now a member of the mobile documentation team, now all the glamour begins. There is a .net awards party nov. 24th in London and we're looking for someone to represent the project if we win. Might you be interested?”
- 22. .net Magazine Award “Sortof random, but since you're now a member of the mobile documentation team, now all the glamour begins. There is a .net awards party nov. 24th in London and we're looking for someone to represent the project if we win. Might you be interested?”
- 23. .net Magazine Award “Sortof random, but since you're now a member of the mobile documentation team, now all the glamour begins. There is a .net awards party nov. 24th in London and we're looking for someone to represent the project if we win. Might you be interested?”
- 24. .net Magazine Award “Sortof random, but since you're now a member of the mobile documentation team, now all the glamour begins. There is a .net awards party nov. 24th in London and we're looking for someone to represent the project if we win. Might you be interested?”
- 25. .net Magazine Award “Sortof random, but since you're now a member of the mobile documentation team, now all the glamour begins. There is a .net awards party nov. 24th in London and we're looking for someone to represent the project if we win. Might you be interested?”
- 26. Hi Todd, Yes Iam definitely interested :-) Thank you very much! Anne
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- 29. I met PaulIrish!
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- 31. After 73 mergedPRs…
- 33. Meanwhile at work… •Restructuring: – Merged two schools of Computer Science – All staff had to reapply for their position – Reduced staff by 30% – Tensions – STRESS
- 34. Meanwhile at work… •All new roles are unavailable to me • No prospect for career progression
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- 37. Typical Day • 6.30amwake up, get kids ready for school • Go to Work • 5.45pm pick up kids, prepare dinner, help with homework. • 7pm/8pm to 11pm+ jQuery time! (+ commuting time) • Weekends & Holidays are also jQuery time! • Roughly 35h a week – sometimes more…
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- 44. My Contributions • In4.5 years: – Contributed to 15 jQuery repos and a few others (jsbin, node.js, w3c) – 1500 commits – 50000 additions – 3500 h
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- 47. Speaking Opportunities • 5international conferences (UK, Europe, USA) • 1 international meetup (Europe) • Many more offers (Europe & Asia)
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- 49. Opportunities to makenew contacts
- 50. Opportunities to makenew contacts
- 51. Opportunities to makenew contacts
- 52. Learning Opportunities • Fromdiscussions • From conferences • Feedback on PRs • Code Reviews
- 53. Learning Opportunities • GitHub •git • Wordpress • IRC • Grunt • Node • jQuery • jQuery UI • jQuery Mobile • Markdown • Coding standards • Software Engineering processes • Testing • Documentation
- 54. That feeds backinto my work • Better teaching experience for my students • Improved and wider expertise in the web and mobile area • Work with web and mobile experts • Good position for curriculum development • My students get: – Invited to Mozilla events in London – Invited to London JS events – Guest Lectures
- 55. Now at work… •New roles are available to me • Prospect for career progression
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- 59. jQuery and me!OpenSource and me!
- 60. Conclusion • Many opportunitiesto contribute to Open Source • Many areas in which to contribute • Real impact on your – Career – Confidence – How people see you
- 61. Where will youcontribute?
- 62. Thank you! • Anne-GaelleColom (Anne) • @agcolom on Twitter • I'm agcolom on the #jquery-content and #jqueryui-dev channels on freenode IRC
Editor's Notes
- #2 I’m going to talk to you about what Open source did for me, from being a user of jQuery Mobile to becoming a contributor, then becoming a team member.
- #5 And this is where it all started. (spec)
- #8 I could cover the whole javascript syntax.
- #16 I was telling github about a
- #37 So I just jumped into what made me feel valued
- #45 Just to give you an idea from my own experience
- #54 ----- Meeting Notes (17/10/2015 14:33) ----- Tools, Technologies, Processes,
- #60 Working on jQuery makes me happy I feel valued I learn something new every day