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Growing the Next Generation
of Open Source developers
Dave Neary, Red Hat
dneary@redhat.com
@nearyd
2010: Community anti-patterns:
Best Practices Run Amok
2011:
The dangers
of
Ubiquitous
Computing
2012: Loss of
User Freedom
in a mobile
and cloud world
Saving the
“Digital
Generation”...
... from
themselves
In the beginning...
“It was 20 years ago today
Sgt Peppers taught the band to play”
22
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2000-12-18 Daniel Egger <egger@suse.de>
* plug-ins/ifcompose/ifscompose.c:
Added patch from David Neary to fix calulations.
Fixes bug #9156.
2000-12-18 Daniel Egger <egger@suse.de>
* plug-ins/ifcompose/ifscompose.c:
Added patch from David Neary to fix calulations.
Fixes bug #9156.

2000-12-18 Daniel Egger <egger@suse.de>
* plug-ins/ifcompose/ifscompose.c:
Second attempt from David Neary which should work
better.
There are two difficult problems in computer science:
There are two difficult problems in computer science:

* Cache invalidation
There are two difficult problems in computer science:

* Cache invalidation
* Naming things
There are two difficult problems in computer science:

* Cache invalidation
* Naming things
* And off by one errors

(with thanks to Philip Karlton)
One good thing about getting old:
Offspring
you can
indoctrinate
Thomas: 11
Paul: 8
Sean: 6
The world of computing
has evolved
Remember
the Turbo
Button
[dneary@elrond src]$ tar xvfz gimp-1.1.119.tar.gz
[dneary@elrond src]$ cd gimp-1.1.119
[dneary@elrond gimp-1.1.119]$ ./configure –prefix=/opt –enable-gif –enable-png
...
[dneary@elrond gimp-1.1.119]$ make
...
[dneary@elrond gimp-1.1.119]$ su -c “make install”
...
Where is
user freedom?
Learned helplessness
"Life can be much broader once you discover
one simple fact, and that is, everything around you
that you call life was made up by people that
were no smarter than you ...
the minute that you understand
that you can poke life ...
that you can change it,
you can mould it ...
that's maybe the most
important thing."
Steve Jobs
Sharing is good
Freedom is not having
to ask permission.
6 tips for
indoctrinating
your kids in
the hacker way
6. Creative toys
Kaplas
Ikea train sets
Meccano
Building blocks
5. Hackable living
space
4. Grow a garden
3. Arts and crafts
2. Teaching electronics
Tools
Take apart
old toys

Credits: CC BY-NC-ND GARNET @ flickr
Conductive play-dough

http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/apthomas/SquishyCircuits/
Arduino
1. Coding literacy
Control
over
your
environment
Questions?

Dave Neary
dneary@redhat.com
@nearyd

Growing the next generation of Open Source developers

Editor's Notes

  • #2 Title slide – growth, the next generation, plus name, employer, email, Twitter handle
  • #8 “It was 20 years ago today”... Sgt Peppers Linux 22 years old, FSF 28 years old, Emacs is ~37 years old
  • #9 Linux: 22 years old
  • #13 My first patch – 1999 + my 2nd patch – off by one error correction “There are two difficult problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off by one errors” - Phil Karlton
  • #14 My first patch – 1999 + my 2nd patch – off by one error correction “There are two difficult problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off by one errors” - Phil Karlton
  • #15 My first patch – 1999 + my 2nd patch – off by one error correction “There are two difficult problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off by one errors” - Phil Karlton
  • #16 My first patch – 1999 + my 2nd patch – off by one error correction “There are two difficult problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off by one errors” - Phil Karlton
  • #17 Getting old – terrible memory – airport car park photo + hotel room photo
  • #21 Getting old – but making babies Survey how many people are parents? Have kids with them? Are fathers?Are mothers?
  • #24 First computer – sizes off
  • #25 Back in 1999: If you wanted a new piece of software, you did “./configure &amp;&amp; make &amp;&amp; make install”
  • #30 Jobs video: “this world was made by people no smarter than me, and I can change it” - the world is a playground, we&apos;re visiting, and can improve it
  • #31 Want to teach kids the values of the free software community – sharing, and control
  • #33 Not covering programming (except to talk about Sugar a little). Light on electronics. Concentrating instead on giving them pleasure in making and building things, and a sense of control Looking at preschool through to ~10 years old Would love to spend time regularly in programming or electronics classes, but work, homework, play, family, running... - doing what we can
  • #34 Creative toys
  • #35 Lego, Kapla, Playmobil
  • #40 Meccano
  • #46 Hackable living space It drives us crazy, but we give the kids a significant amount of control over their rooms. This is my son&apos;s room, with the clothesline we installed together holding his “work”
  • #49 Whenever I make something around the house (and I am definitely not a home improvements guy!) I include the kids – they painted this set of shelves...
  • #50 ...and this basketball ring
  • #52 Grow a garden The kids all garden – planting seeds in Spring, we transfer them together into the garden in May or June. The kids love having our own tomatoes, strawberries, courgettes, squashes, and it also learns the importance of maintenance – our pepper plants does last year, this year we have no radishes and most of our salads were eaten...
  • #55 Arts &amp; crafts Home-made costumes, lollipop sticks, teaching improvisation
  • #57 Lollipop sticks
  • #67 Scoubidous
  • #71 Electronics
  • #76 Small Arduino circuits
  • #77 Soldering with Paul
  • #78 Taking toys apart
  • #79 Burnt finger