Life in Open Source Communities, ApacheCon US 2009
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Slides of my "Life in Open Source Communities" talk at ApacheCon US 2009, see also http://grep.codeconsult.ch/2009/10/30/life-in-open-source-communities-live-at-apachecon/
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Life in Open Source Communities, ApacheCon US 2009
- 1. BETA Life in Open Source Communities Bertrand Delacrétaz Senior Developer, R&D, Day Software, www.day.com Apache Software Foundation Member http://grep.codeconsult.ch - twitter: @bdelacretaz - bdelacretaz@apache.org ApacheCon US 2009, Oakland, CA slides revision: 2009-10-30 Life in Open Source 1 Communities Bertrand Delacrétaz
- 2. Basel, Switzerland headquarters (~80 people, ~150 worldwide) Munich “Day allows us to quickly London and reliably deliver content to our entire McFamily, content-centric helping us to be flexible and drive new opportunities.” products Newport Beach, CA Steve Wilson, Senior Director of Web Toronto Communications, McDonald’s (everything is content) Swiss open source www.day.com award / business / 2008 note the 3-letter domain name: we’ve been doing this for a while... Strong ties to the Apache Software Foundation 2001 Roy T. Fielding and David Nuescheler, Survived tough times (SWX:DAYN) “Mr. REST” and “Mr. JCR”
- 4. is there life in open source communities?
- 6. can we establish a relationship?
- 7. the way we work is not always obvious
- 8. you don’t know much about us
- 9. we don’t know much about you
- 10. we need to get to know each other
- 11. let’s make a good first impression Life in Open Source Communities
- 12. learn to read before you write
- 13. learn the local community dialect
- 14. know who you’re talking to
- 16. now you’re ready to write
- 17. once you write keep it simple
- 18. yes we do warm welcomes
- 19. email is hard
- 20. reformulate until 100% clear
- 21. mistakes do not kill photo by xenia on morguefile.com
- 22. RESPECT
- 23. I’m soft Tough guy I love TALKING know-it-all Exkûz maï anglissh community characters I’m done
- 24. community success drivers Life in Open Source Communities
- 25. shared vision
- 28. self-service archives
- 30. code quality as an example of shared vision Life in Open Source Communities
- 31. readability conformance modernity modularity elegance conciseness transparency correctness performance documentation features brackets code quality?
- 32. which one is your quality gate?
- 33. we need to get to know each other
- 34. coda: story of a community apache cocoon Life in Open Source Communities
- 35. software as a means, not an end
- 36. getting together photos: Vadim Gritsenko, Zaphgod, JAsha J, Jeroen Reijn on Flickr makes the difference
- 37. business keeps people together
- 38. a small step for software a giant leap for the community
- 39. in the end it’s all about... getting to know each other making and respect! sense of the crowd getting good at x42.ch/01.00.01 email Life in Open Source Communities
- 40. This slide deck is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3 license. Copyright (C) 2009, Bertrand Delacretaz Except where noted, photographs come from the morguefile.com public image archive, used according to the morguefile license. Many thanks to users gracey, click, jusben, taliesin, wallyir, peekaysee, jpkwitter, missyredboots, phaewilk, Chatterbox911, earl53, mzacha, clarita, pedrojperez, mantasmagorical, faustfoundation, manifeststefany, Alvimann, oldgreyseawolf,jdurham,xenia, jade, jeltovski, auntlaya for their wonderful pictures.