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8 years ago Jumpstart Your Open Source Presence Through New Collaboration Tools
Speaker: Drew Smith note: possible other speaker(s) from Github or Slack)
- Intro for Drew
- Intro for {code}
What's an Open Source Strategy and Why Should You Care
- Business case for open source
- example case study
- comparison with advertisers moving from TV to YouTube
- Who uses this stuff?
Github
- basics of revision control systems
- predecessors
- cvs plusses and minuses
- svn ditto
- enter Github
- what even is git?
- what is github?
- who uses github?
- benefits of making code open-source
- github as a security tool
- github as a resume
Slack
- what's great about email
- everyone knows how to use it
- ubiquitous across the world
- ...
- what's awful about email
- server overhead
- spam
- non-interactive
- is email actually going away any time soon?
- no.
- what even is Slack?
- old idea, new implementation
- comparable with IRC/ICQ/MSN/etc
- can be open or closed
- why you should care
- fills the hole between meetings and email
- easy/quick interactions for your teams
- great place to build community around your products
Questions
Building a great open source strategy starts from the inside. A strategy that focuses on real-time communication, open and collaborative discussions tends to be more successful with their open source initiatives and hiring the right talent. Learn about the tools such as GitHub and Slack that can help align your company to open source.