We are living in an era when the "digital generation" knows how to use computers, but knows less and less about how to make technology. As the world moves to open source, and people's interaction with computers is dominated by embedded devices, ubiquitous computing, mobile devices and cloud, the typical computer user now has no real ability to change his computing environment in a meaningful way. As a parent, I want to teach my kids control over their environment, and pass on to them the values of the free software and maker movements: curiosity, a desire to learn how things work and share knowledge, and above all, that we are the masters of our own destiny. This presentation shares some of the things which we have done in our family to rear our children in the free and open source ethos.

1. Growing the Next Generation
of Open Source developers
Dave Neary, Red Hat
dneary@redhat.com
@nearyd

2. 2010: Community anti-patterns:
Best Practices Run Amok

3. 2011:
The dangers
of
Ubiquitous
Computing

4. 2012: Loss of
User Freedom
in a mobile
and cloud world

5. Saving the
“Digital
Generation”...
... from
themselves

6. In the beginning...

7. “It was 20 years ago today
Sgt Peppers taught the band to play”

8. 22

9. 29

10. 2000-12-18 Daniel Egger <egger@suse.de>
* plug-ins/ifcompose/ifscompose.c:
Added patch from David Neary to fix calulations.
Fixes bug #9156.

11. 2000-12-18 Daniel Egger <egger@suse.de>
* plug-ins/ifcompose/ifscompose.c:
Added patch from David Neary to fix calulations.
Fixes bug #9156.
2000-12-18 Daniel Egger <egger@suse.de>
* plug-ins/ifcompose/ifscompose.c:
Second attempt from David Neary which should work
better.

12. There are two difficult problems in computer science:

13. There are two difficult problems in computer science:
* Cache invalidation

14. There are two difficult problems in computer science:
* Cache invalidation
* Naming things

15. There are two difficult problems in computer science:
* Cache invalidation
* Naming things
* And off by one errors
(with thanks to Philip Karlton)

20. One good thing about getting old:
Offspring
you can
indoctrinate

21. Thomas: 11
Paul: 8
Sean: 6

22. The world of computing
has evolved

23. Remember
the Turbo
Button

24. [dneary@elrond src]$ tar xvfz gimp-1.1.119.tar.gz
[dneary@elrond src]$ cd gimp-1.1.119
[dneary@elrond gimp-1.1.119]$ ./configure –prefix=/opt –enable-gif –enable-png
...
[dneary@elrond gimp-1.1.119]$ make
...
[dneary@elrond gimp-1.1.119]$ su -c “make install”
...

27. Where is
user freedom?

28. Learned helplessness

29. "Life can be much broader once you discover
one simple fact, and that is, everything around you
that you call life was made up by people that
were no smarter than you ...
the minute that you understand
that you can poke life ...
that you can change it,
you can mould it ...
that's maybe the most
important thing."
Steve Jobs

30. Sharing is good

31. Freedom is not having
to ask permission.

32. 6 tips for
indoctrinating
your kids in
the hacker way

33. 6. Creative toys

34. Kaplas

38. Ikea train sets

39. Meccano

42. Building blocks

45. 5. Hackable living
space

51. 4. Grow a garden

54. 3. Arts and crafts

70. 2. Teaching electronics

71. Tools

72. Take apart
old toys
Credits: CC BY-NC-ND GARNET @ flickr

74. Conductive play-dough
http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/apthomas/SquishyCircuits/

75. Arduino

79. 1. Coding literacy

84. Control
over
your
environment

85. Questions?
Dave Neary
dneary@redhat.com
@nearyd