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My experiences in open source development

by Rafael Caricio / @rafaelcaricio

Who am I?

• Web developer
• Work at Lunar Logic
• Brazilian discovering the other side of the world

Why Poland?

What have I already done in open source?

• Thumbor - Image manipulation server
  https://github.com/globocom/thumbor/
• Provy - Provisioning tool for Python developers
  http://python-provy.github.com/provy/
• FightCode - Battle of robots in JavaScript
  http://fightcodegame.com/
• PyVows - Asynchronous BDD for Python
  http://heynemann.github.com/pyvows/
• others

BAD experiences in open source

• pull requests which don't get accepted
• bad feedback from the core developers
• closed groups inside the projects
• abandoned projects

GOOD experiences in open source

Your pull request gets accepted
GOOD experiences in open source

Your project gets a good feedback
GOOD experiences in open source

Make friends and have fun
GOOD experiences in open source

Get help in your projects
GOOD experiences in open source

Spread your ideas to the world
GOOD experiences in open source

Many other things...
GOOD experiences in open source

How can you start?
There is nothing special

All projects need help

• GitHub is amazing
• search for projects you like
• look for open issues
• send your pull request

Open source your existing project

• help from the community
• bugs that you could never imagine
• see how your project behaves in differents user cases

We want to help you!

And I'm sure that we can amaze you! ;)

THE END

Thank you!

Rafael Caricio @rafaelcaricio on GitHub