Rise of Open Source
Navigating & Contributing to the Open Source Community
Ahmad Nassri @ Big Data Toronto 2016
#BigDataTO
AhmadNassri.com
Hai!
Entrepreneur, Hacker, Developer
Open Source Advocate & Dog Lover
@AhmadNassri
http://ahmad.codes
VP of Engineering at Mashape, Founder at Tech Masters, Mentor at Node School Toronto, Director at Full Stack Toronto, Director at Open API Initiative, Editor at The RESTful Web.
Where to Start?
Open Source Principles
Quality First
Documentation
Test Everything
Open Discussion
Transparency
Asynchronicity
Democracy
Quality First
“Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.”
― Martin Golding, Code For The Maintainer
Document ALL The Things!
“Documentation is like candy: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing..”
Open Discussions
“Be your own worst critic. When things go wrong it's tempting to shift the blame. Don't.
Accept responsibility. People will appreciate it, and you will find out what you're capable of.”
― Paul Arden
Test Everything
“Test-design thinking can discover and eliminate bugs at every stage in the creation of software, from conception to specification, to design, coding and the rest.”
― Boris Beizer
Be Transparent
“Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.”
― John Gerzema
Life is asynchronous
You can automate & synchronize machines, but you cannot synchronize nor automate humans!
― me, Just now.
Embrace Democracy
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
