Contributing to Open Source
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The document discusses the importance of open source software, highlighting its widespread adoption among enterprises and benefits such as quality, cost-efficiency, and community influence. It provides an overview of Mozilla's history and contributions, detailing the author's journey and current role as an automation engineer. Additionally, it encourages others to get involved in open source by finding projects that resonate with them and emphasizes the personal and professional benefits of participation.
Contributing to Open Source
- 1. Contributing to Open Source Justin Potts Mozilla Core Contributor
- 2. What Is a Open Source? "Denoting software for which the original source code is freely available and may be redistributed and modified"
- 3. Companies in Open Source
- 4. Why is Open Source Important? • 98% enterprises are using OSS • Influence • Quality • Efficiency • Cost
- 5. What is Mozilla? rporation. Their mission goes along the lines of "To create a co
- 6. A Brief History • March 31, 1998 @ NetScape • 10,000 people payed for a full page ad in the NY Times in 2004 - the day Firefox 1.0 launched • Has contributors on every continent... And yes, Antarctica. • In 2008, 8,002,530 people downloaded and set a Guinness world record for most downloads in 24 hours. • 2013 marked the launch of Firefox OS and their 15th anniversary
- 7. How I Got Involved • Google Code-In 2012 Finalist • March 2013 • Editorial reviews for documentation • Moved to QA in February 2014
- 8. What I Do Now or Automation Engineer for mozillians.org, and QA Project Lea (Not official, I just like saying it...) I work on a team of six, including myself.
- 9. How You Can Get Involved • Find a company that has a mission that appeals to you • Choose a particular field that you think you would enjoy (Documentation, Development, QA, UI/UX...) • Look for ways to contribute (Bugs that need fixing, bugs that need filing, design improvements, documentation creation/updates...)
- 10. Benefits of Contributing • Get invited to events • Increased job prospects • Potential internships • Connections • Recommendations
- 11. How Computer Science Helped Me • Fundamentals • Resume Builder • Broader knowledge • Diversity in available projects
- 12. Things To Do • Learn more languages ( Python and JavaScript) • Find an interesting open source project • Get familiar with the software • Learn more tools • Stimulate yourself outside of class (competitions, hacka
- 13. Check Out Some of My Work • https://www.github.com/justinpotts • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/user_profile?login =moz.justinpotts%40gmail.com
- 14. DEMO
- 15. Questions