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Why contribute to open source projects
This document discusses reasons to contribute to open source projects, including to add new features or fix issues, learn software development skills, learn new programming languages and technologies, build an online presence to help your resume stand out, and have fun collaborating with other skilled people. It also lists several popular open source big data and administration tool projects, as well as application development tools. Finally, it provides tips on how to get started contributing, such as choosing a project, subscribing to mailing lists, reading issue trackers and documentation, and beginning by using the tools yourself before contributing code changes, documentation updates, or other improvements.
Why contribute to open source projects
- 1. Why Contribute toOpen Source Projects? By Kranti K. Parisa NIT- Warangal Alumni Webinar 10th March 2014
- 2. - Lead Engineer/SearchArchitect, Search & Discovery Services Group @ Comcast - Apache Solr Contributor http://wiki.apache.org/solr/krantiparisa - Co-author – “Apache Solr 4 Enterprise Search Server” http://www.packtpub.com/apache-solr-4-enterprise/book - Committer, Heliosearch - a high-performance NoSQL search server, the next generation of open source search http://www.heliosearch.org - Co-founder & Technical Advisor at many startups focusing on SaaS, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Search & Discovery. - Passionate about Enterprise Search, Big Data & Cloud Computing - Connect @ http://www.linkedin.com/in/krantiparisa Who am I?
- 3. Why would Iwant to contribute? There are also many very pragmatic reasons for contributing to open source projects: • To add a new feature / improvement to a project; or to fix an issue with a project • To practice and learn about software development - contributing to a project is a great way to learn about the more hands on aspects of software development like using debuggers, version control systems, issue trackers, etc. • To practice/learn a particular programming language or technology which you are interested in • To build your online presence - highlighting open source contributions relevant to the job makes your resume stand out from the rest Key Points: • Give Something Back • Get to Collaborate with Really Smart People • Interesting and Challenging • It's Fun! • Great Opportunity to Learn Something New • Looks Good on a Resume • Doesn't Have to Be Code
- 4. Open Source BigData Projects Apache Hadoop - http://hadoop.apache.org/ Apache Lucene – https://lucene.apache.org/ Apache Solr - https://lucene.apache.org/solr/ Apache Sqoop - http://sqoop.apache.org/ Apache Giraph - http://giraph.apache.org/ Apache Hama - http://hama.apache.org/ Apache Drill - http://incubator.apache.org/drill/ Neo4j - http://www.neo4j.org/ MongoDB - http://www.mongodb.com/
- 5. Open Source AdminTools UNetbootin - http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ Folder Size - http://foldersize.sourceforge.net/ Clonezilla - http://clonezilla.org/ FileZilla - https://filezilla-project.org/ Adminer - http://www.adminer.org/ SQuirreL SQL - http://www.squirrelsql.org/ Artica - http://www.artica.fr/ RackTables - http://racktables.org/
- 6. Open Source ApplicationDevelopment Tools Bootstrap - http://getbootstrap.com/ LESS - http://lesscss.org/ AngularJS - http://angularjs.org/ Backbone.js - http://backbonejs.org/ Node.js - http://nodejs.org/ jQuery - http://jquery.com/ D3 - http://d3js.org/ PhoneGap - http://phonegap.com/ Cloud Foundry - http://www.cloudfoundry.com/ Jenkins - http://jenkins-ci.org/ Scala - http://www.scala-lang.org/what-is-scala.html Python - http://www.python.org/
- 7. What is theProcess?
- 8. Where to Start& Next Steps Choose the project – May not be a bad idea to start at https://openhatch.org/ Subscribe to the Mailing lists Read the Issues/features on the Ticketing Systems of the project, eg: JIRA Read the Documentation, identify the gaps, propose the updates/changes on the forums Get access to the project wiki, source code (SVN, Git) – Create your accounts Be active in the user, developer groups of the project Remember, use the tool/library first - Download - Install - Develop simple use cases - Understand the fundamentals of the project, read books! Start contributing: update documentation, fix a bug in the code, write unit tests, write technical blogs You will be recognized & rewarded!!