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Community 2.0 Beyond Using So4ware Livre Leslie Hawthorn FISL 15 @lhawthorn
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Presented at Forum Internacional Software Livre 2014, aka FISL 15, fisl.softwarelivre.org Presented in English with simultaneous translation into BR-PT Community 2.0: Beyond Using Software Livre Software Livre powers the most important systems we use today, most notably all those servers that connect us to the Internet and each other. Following from Brasil's early lead, governments worldwide are adopting policies that ensure they will create - or buy - software livre. Many of them have committed to publishing the code or data streams they produce under livre licenses. Tons of big businesses now use software livre, publish their own code and pay programmers to work on software livre projects. So, perhaps software livre has "won the war." If everyone is using it, there must not be much more work needed to improve the software livre world. Right? Maybe not. In this talk, Leslie Hawthorn will talk about the importance of not just using software livre, but contributing back to the software livre community in a variety of ways: translation and localization, writing software, hosting teaching sessions for people not using software livre, and more. Drawing on years of experience as a community manager at Elasticsearch, Red Hat and Google's Open Source Department, she will share real-world stories of how you can contribute to software livre at the local and international level. Having been to FISL before - and having interacted with many programmers in Brasil through the Summer of Code program - Leslie is always amazed by the passion in the Brasilian and South American software livre communities. She hopes this talk will inspire more people to share their wisdom and passion with the wider community of software livre users and developers.
Transcript of Community 2.0: Beyond Using Software Livre
Community 2.0
Beyond Using So4ware Livre
Leslie Hawthorn � FISL 15 � @lhawthorn
About Me…
Global traveler helping people contribute to the wonderful world of so4ware livre
“So4ware is eaEng the world.” Marc Andreesen, 2011
Black Duck Future of Open Source Survey 2013
Team Brasil is leading the world in so4ware livre (and futbol!)
Then why do so few people know about so4ware livre acEvity in Brasil?
Only 30% of Brasilian developers share their work in publicly available repositories
Source: Camara & Fonseca, 2007
Enjoy drinking from the so4ware livre cup? Help the community to refill it!
Businesses contribuIng to soKware livre create more diverse viewpoints in technical culture &
receive other economic benefits
Individuals contribuEng to so4ware livre gain skills that help them on their path into the future
Publish your so4ware under livre licenses
• \
Good for individuals *and* companies
I want to help, but I am not a programmer!
There are many ways to contribute to soKware livre, even if you don’t write code. (I don’t write code. J)
Be a proud user of so4ware livre, and tell others to use it, too!
Teach Others to Use So4ware Livre
Installfests, study groups or one on one mentoring are all great!
Brasil has many volunteers who translate docs and localize soKware livre (L10N)
More help never hurts!
Don’t just translate docs, write them too!
Write test suites
or file great bug reports
Aside: How to Write a
Good Bug Report
Perform usability tests
So4ware livre really needs help from user experience designers!
So4ware livre needs arEsts, too!
So4ware livre is a busy bazaar
good markeEng helps people find what they need
OK! I want to help!
there are many resources for new contributors to so4ware livre
No maaer how you contribute to so4ware livre, always remember
A sample of further resources to help you get started
• h<p://openhatch.org -‐ small and meaningful so@ware livre projects for new contributors
• h<p://writethedocs.org -‐ organiza4on helping open source projects make their documenta4on be<er, with places for you to help too!
• Find a cool user group near you on meetup.com – search for “so@ware livre” or “open source” or the programming language/technology you like most like “Linux”
• Programs like Google Summer of Code or the Outreach Program for Women provide par4cipants with mentors
• Many open source projects have mentor projects (like Python Core Mentorship project) or pages on their website for brand new contributors
• Ask in a project’s IRC channel if there’s a way you can help. Even be<er if you have a couple of sugges4ons for where you would get started, e.g. I’d like to keep the wiki more up to date.
• (Note: ElasIcsearch Inc. is my employer) If you care about search, logging, analy4cs and data visualiza4on (big data), you can join the Elas4csearch BR-‐PT mailing list: h<ps://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/elas4csearch-‐pt
Photo Credits • Hands: h<ps://www.flickr.com/photos/revdave/400069880/ • Globe puzzle: h<ps://www.flickr.com/photos/willow-‐monk/2933749922/ • Goat nomming ribbon: h<ps://www.flickr.com/photos/foxypar4/913591946/ • Wow, it’s Pele’s jersey!: h<ps://www.flickr.com/photos/wjarre<c/1129252478/ • Stairs to unknown: h<ps://www.flickr.com/photos/ahmedrabea/246570462/ • Stats le<ers: h<ps://www.flickr.com/photos/lendingmemo/11442225495/ • Livre iced tea: h<ps://www.flickr.com/photos/alan-‐light/5458104057/ • It all ma<ers: h<ps://www.flickr.com/photos/twodolla/3771345934/ • Sunset and highways: h<ps://www.flickr.com/photos/eschipul/269752158/ • Invest in sharing: h<ps://www.flickr.com/photos/jonathanmcintosh/3746142610/ • Programmers: h<ps://www.flickr.com/photos/whiteafrican/4670835071/ • I love to share: h<ps://www.flickr.com/photos/crea4vecommons/2294317199/ • Peer mentors: h<ps://www.flickr.com/photos/ell-‐r-‐brown/6972776345 • Transla4ng: h<ps://www.flickr.com/photos/11527081@N05/3046267775/ • Lego knowledge sharing humans: h<ps://www.flickr.com/photos/erozkosz/6003136440/ • Test boxes: h<ps://www.flickr.com/photos/sidelong/246816211 • Bug report cat: h<ps://www.flickr.com/photos/thefangmonster/8216417533/ • Lego alien ar4st: h<ps://www.flickr.com/photos/pasukaru76/5804637969/ • Usability tes4ng: h<ps://www.flickr.com/photos/lucamascaro/4642289926/ • Market: h<ps://www.flickr.com/photos/edwardmusiak/6816136325/ • Ducklings: h<ps://www.flickr.com/photos/33909700@N02/3158923837/ • Obrigado: h<ps://www.flickr.com/photos/jvc/33918140/
Resources Used for this Presenta4on
• Informa4on Policies and Open Source So@ware in Developing Countries, Camara & Fonseca 2007, h<p://flosshub.org/system/files/camara_fonseca_OSS_developing_countries.pdf
• Brazil at forefront of open source ini4a4ves h<p://opensource.com/government/12/8/brazil-‐forefront-‐open-‐source-‐ini4a4ves
• Wikipedia’s list of government Linux adopters: h<p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_adopters
• Open source, open world: h<p://www.foreignaffairs.com/ar4cles/139922/yuri-‐takhteyev/open-‐source-‐open-‐world
• Use of open source so@ware by the Brazilian government h<p://4mreview.ca/ar4cle/250
The Legal Bits
• All images used in this presenta4on are copyright their respec4ve owners and are used under a Crea4ve Commons License or are considered fair use (a<ribu4on provided).
• This presenta4on is licensed Crea4ve Commons A<ribu4on Share-‐Alike 4.0 h<p://crea4vecommons.org/licenses/by-‐sa/4.0/
• Please use, remix and share widely!
