Open sourcery

Open sourcery

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  Open Sourcery Presented by:Alex Meade Date: February 7th, 2013 Ppt: http://www.slideshare.net/AlexMeade1/open-sourcery
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  2 What is OpenSource?
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  3 • Freely distributed •Source code included • Anyone can modify and redistribute
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  4 Licenses • GNU GeneralPublic License • MIT License • Creative Commons (CC) ← not technically OS – Attribution – Share Alike – Non-Commercial – No Derivative Works
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  5 Why Open Source?
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  6 Benefits of OpenSource • Reliability • Cost • Freedom
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  7 Rackspace and theOpen Cloud • Foster Innovation • Open cloud standard – Reach scale faster – Minimize vender lock-in – Take tech out of the equation
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  8 How do OpenSource projects work?
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  9 Where they live •SourceForge.net • Github.com • Launchpad.com • Code.google.com
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  10 Small Project Example- Rainbarf • CPU/RAM stats chart for your terminal window • Hosted on GitHub • Two Contributors
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  11 Large Project Example- OpenStack • Community – 6695 technologists, devs, and cloud computing experts – 87 countries – Openstack Foundation and Board of Directors • Sub-Projects – 550k LOC – 550 Devs – 35+ sub-projects and sub-teams
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  12 Should you getinvolved?
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  13 • Fun • Experience •Networking • Resume Building • Prestige (possibly Worldwide)
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  14 How to getinvolved
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  15 Find a Project •Something you already use • A cool existing project • Start your own
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  16 Get your footin the door • Watch the community (Mailing lists, Blogs, IRC) • File/Fix/Diagnose a bug • Write a test • Refactor ugly code • Suggest a feature • Work with the docs • Get an open source internship – http://code.google.com/soc
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  17 Extra Resources Good Reads – Contribute Without being a Rockstar – How Opensource Survives Poisonous People – How to start contributing to Open Source – Google Summer of Code Interesting Projects – Secret Maryo Chronicles - http://www.secretmaryo.org – Ubuntu - https://launchpad.net/ubuntu – OpenStack – http://www.openstack.org
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  18 Rackspace • Hiring internsand full-time • On campus next week – Monday, February 11th – Stuart Lounge 5:00pm – 6:00pm • RackerTalent.com
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