Getting Involved in Open Source

Acadiana Open Source Group

http://acadianaos.org

Matthew Turland

A Little About Me

Lead Programmer for surgiSYS LLC

7 years experience in the IT industry

Bachelors in Computer Science from UL

Zend Certified Engineer

Published author in php|architect magazine

Blog: http://ishouldbecoding.com

What is Open Source?

Open - open to distribution, study, and change

Source - source code

The Open Source Definition
http://opensource.org/docs/osd

The Free Software Definition
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

Examples of Open Source

Ubuntu Linux-based operating system

OpenOffice Office suite

Firefox Web browser

Thunderbird E-mail client

Pidgin Multi-protocol instant messenger client

MediaWiki Wiki software powering Wikipedia

Apache Web server powering 50% of the web

Why Open Source?

Free (as in beer)

No commercial pressure on releases

Given enough eyes, all bugs are shallow

Perspectives + Goals = Innovation

Scratch your own itch

Show Me the Money!

Hosting and installation

Customizations and add-ons

Consulting and training

Books and magazines

Accelerated development

Why Should I Get Involved?

Improves the software available to you

Improves the support community

Provides software developers with education and work samples for prospective employers

Provides businesses with more flexible cost-effective software solutions

How Can I Get Involved?

Write code and fix bugs

Promote the software you use

Suggest new features

Test release candidates and report bugs

Submit documentation improvements

Participate in support channels

Donate money for hosting and bandwidth

Writing Code and Fixing Bugs

Common desktop languages: C, Java, Python

Find an open issue and submit a patch

Package software for a target OS

Write new software and submit it for inclusion

Promoting Software

Use it yourself

Word-of-mouth is the best form of advertising

Include logos and links on your web site or blog

Participate in a user group or street team

Purchase and wear branded merchandise

Testing and Reporting Bugs

Back up your data first!

Review related documentation

Find out if bugs are known before reporting

When filing a bug report, be thorough

Be available if developers have questions

Support Channels

Wikis

Forums

Mailing lists

IRC channels

Freenode - http://freenode.net

EFNet - http://www.efnet.org

DevNode - http://devnode.org

Finding Projects

SourceForge - http://sourceforge.net

Freshmeat - http://freshmeat.net

Assembla - http://www.assembla.com/portal

Google Code - http://code.google.com

Students: Google Summer of Code - http://code.google.com/soc

Package repository for your OS

Questions?

Credits

Acadiana Educational Endowment

Acadiana Symphony Orchestra

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