This document discusses open source software development and participating in open source communities. It defines open source software and different open source licenses. It describes how social coding has created a new collaborative development culture where code is shared openly in version control systems and issues are tracked publicly. The document encourages participation by hacking on software, finding and fixing issues, communicating on mailing lists and meetings. It outlines benefits like learning opportunities, community, and free and open code that can be used for business. It provides an example of the OpenStack open source project and offers contact information for those interested in participating.

1. Social Coding
Participating in
Open Source Communitites
Deepak Garg
OpenStack Developer, Citrix R&D

2. Social Coding
● What is Open Source ?
● Philosophy and Licenses
● Social Coding – a new culture
● It gets better !
● Participating
● Writing Open Source
● Oh what the heck !
● OpenStack

3. What is Open Source ?
● Open Code
● Open may not be free
● Free may not be open
● Licenses and terms

4. Philosophy and Licenses
● Licenses may vary in copyright, distribution
and usage
● GPL 1, 2, 3, BSD, CreativeContent, Apache,
Mozilla, Write your own etc.
● Hence communities → Ubuntu, Debian, Linux,
RedHat, Xen, Qemu etc.

5. Social Coding – a new culture
● Version Control → CVS vs DVCS
● Git, Bazaar, Mercurial
● Launchpad, Github, Gitorous, Bitbucket
Issue Tracking
Community Management
● People share every small thing they write,
people contribute, they make, break,
open teaming, open discussion, mailing lists,
open documentation

6. It gets better !
● Open Code review -
https://review.openstack.org/#change,3207
● Open Meetings – IRC webchat.freenode.net
● Open Design – Conference and Design
Summits

7. Participating
● Be a Hacker
Play with the software
Read the Doc
Is the issue known ?
Find the problem ?
Work arounds/fixes
Email the mailing list
● Community Etiquette
Polite, intelligent, techie … a member of
community

8. Writing Open Source
● Why => LICENSES
Fun → Debian
Business → LGPL
Chill Out → BSD
● Always always read every bit of the license
● Want a Community
Blog, screencast, talk to people
Drop your ego
Everyone needs more more more
Invite people to share ideas, work

9. Oh what the heck !
● Security
● Business $$$ RedHat, Citrix, Ubuntu and
many others
● Different Business Strategies ( Netscaler )
● Learning Opportunities → learn & grow &
learn & grow
● Get free and give free
● Github is my new Resume

10. OpenStack
● IITians are Viruses – A grade
● Skillsets
Virtualizaiton → kvm, qemu, libvirt, virsh
More → python, git, bash, linux freak
Concepts → IaaS, AWS
MOTIVATION !
I am There !
deepakgarg.iitg@gmail.com
Our Team: launchpad.net/~iit