my first year as a contributor in open source projects.. why do I like it so much, and why should you become one?

1. Start hacking already!

2. /whoami
● Bert Desmet
● Belgium
● 21 years old
● Student electronics-IT in Ghent (college)
● President CFK
● Student board
● Fedora
● Ambassador
● Spins wrangler
And oh! I love beer and chocolate ;-)

3. about
● How does a community work?
● Why would I?
● How can I do it?

4. Open source?

5. Open source...

6. How does a community work?

7. Things a project needs..
● A project
● Software?
● Hardware?
● People
● Developers
● Marketeers
● Designers
● ...
● ...

8. And a community looks like...?
Contributors (5%)
Participants (15%)
PARTICIPATE
SHARE
Consumers (80%)
SEEK

9. So, why join?
Future
User Pool
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User
Pool

10. and...
● Networking!
● Learn cool things!
● Think about your future!
● Respect ;-)

11. I'm a hacker..
● I will write code for awesome projects
● I learn new techniques
● I am not the smartest guy around..
● I get things :-)

12. I get things...

13. I'm an ambassador
● I give (sucky) presentations
● I man booths
● I support other users
● I get to places

14. I get to places

15. I am not a designer
● But you can be one!
● But I once made something too :-)

18. What things?
● Whatever you want!
● As long as you believe in it!

19. so....
● http://join.fedoraproject.org
● http://join.sugarlabs.org
● http://maemo.org/community/contribute/
● http://www.gnome.org/community/
● ...

20. Questions?
E-mail: bert@bdesmet.be
Twitter: @biertie
identi.ca: @bdesmet
Web: http://bdesmet.be