Slide about how to contribute to foss. Presented at openSUSE Asia Summit 2016 - Yogjakarta

1. How to Contribute
to FOSS
OpenSUSE Asia Summit 2016
Yogyakarta, Sept 29 - Oct 2, 2016

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Ahmad Haris
OpenSUSE Indonesia Community Member
Release Manager of BlankOn Linux
GNOME Foundation Member
CEO of KodeKreatif (http://kodekreatif.co.id)
Linux Evangelist
github.com/princeofgiri
facebook.com/ahmadharis
@princeofgiri

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Outline
Should we contribute?
Why we need to contribute?
Obstacle
Problems
Benefit
How?

4. Should we contribute?

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Gotong Royong
Indonesia Culture
House building, harvest time, etc

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Gotong Royong
picture taken from https://bugismakassar.wordpress.com/

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Gotong Royong
picture taken from http://www.murianews.com/2016/05/13/82572/gotong-royong-di-
rembang-ini-patut-dicontoh-lho.html

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Gotong Royong
picture taken from http://ukhuwahnews.com/ngetam-budaya-gotong-royong-jeme-lahat/

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Why we need to do it?
• Already got the benefit for using FOSS products. So we need to
contribute back to FOSS.
• Get job because using FOSS. So need to send feedback.
• Increase personal value.
• Create history.
• Learn how to communicate and collaborate with others.
• Learn more from answering question in social media or mailing
list.
• Looks cool.

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Obstacle
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Make your contribution less than others
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Limited internet connection
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Limited hardware (infrastructure, testing)
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Limited storage (infrastructure, repositories)
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Less time (full time employee or family reason)
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Less knowledge
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Someone borrow your laptop* ^_^

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Problems
Problems stop you to contribute
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Died
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Family reason (prohibited by wife/husband)
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Overwork/side job/extra job?
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Any others?

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Benefit
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Knowledge
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Friendship/Community
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Job opportunity
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Getting married
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Travel arround the world

13. How to contribute?
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As personal
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As groups
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As company/startup
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As goverment

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Contribution - Personal
*https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daftar_bahasa_di_Indonesia_menurut_BPS_2010
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Supporting to your local communities
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Create event (such as OpenSUSE Asia Summit)
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Helpdesk at social media, mailing list, chat groups
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Be FOSS developers, local or international.
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Translations (1211 local language).
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Write book, wiki/how to.
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Continues, commitment.

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Contribution - Groups
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Creating FOSS events
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OpenSUSE Asia Summit, GNOME Asia Summit, ILC,
Software Freedom Day
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Supporting FOSS Developers
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Helping users
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Helping companies (ofcourse not free as free lunch)
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Helping goverment
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Translations

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Contribution - Company/StartUp
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Use FOSS products and give feedback
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bug reports, bug fixing, write how to/wiki, translation
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Be sponsor for FOSS products
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Be sponsor for FOSS events
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Be sponsor/donate to developers
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example : FANS Shoes
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Hiring developers
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KodeKreatif

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Contribution - Goverment
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Promoting FOSS
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Implement FOSS
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Create FOSS products and maintaint it
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Co-work with FOSS Communities
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Example: Indonesia RootCA & PKIWebSDK - Kominfo
https://gitlab.com/rootcaid/kominfo-pki-websdk

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https://demo.blankon.id

20. Terima Kasih
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