Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
Free and Open Source Software: Experiences of Using and How to Contribute Free and Open Source Software: Experiences of Using and How to Contribute by Sebastian at the 2nd Bristol IT Mega Meet Saturday 1st June 2013by Sebastian at the 2nd Bristol IT Mega Meet Saturday 1st June 2013
Email: [email protected] IRC: sebsebseb and found in channels such as #mageia and #mageia-social
A photo from OGG Camp 12: Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th August 2012 in Liverpool
How I Became Interested in Free and Open Source SoftwareHow I Became Interested in Free and Open Source Software
History
1997 Trying many programs in Windows 2003 Mozilla and Cygwin 2004 First Linux distribution. 2004 Firefox user since v0.8 2005 Switched to Ubuntu 2005 Found out about Mandrake, the former name of Mandriva 2008-2010 Helping out with Ubuntu 2009 Nearly went back to being a user of first distro. 2009 Tried many distros going down distrowatch 2009 Switch to Mandriva as main distro 2010 Mageia announcement
Mageia 1 release in June 2011. PC Linux OS using for about five months whilst waiting. Joined Mageia team in December 2011. Went to first event FOSDEM 2012. Went to LUG. In March 2012 13th became the deputy leader of a
Mageia team. In May 2012 I tried to gain interest in the LUG and
Mageia at this event. In August 2012 I went to my first OGG Camp. In February 2013 I went to FOSDEM again.
Mageia 1 Screenshots
GNOME 2 KDE 4
XFCE LXDELXDE
Mageia 2 GNOME 3.6 with Mageia Control Centre
Mageia 2 KDE with control..
Mageia 2 XFCE with contorl...
Mageia 3 LXDE with control...
Mageia 1 Screenshot
Mageia 1 with GNOME 2Mageia 1 with GNOME 2
Mageia 2 KDE Desktop and Control Centre
Mageia 3 Screenshots
Mageia's governanceMageia's governance
OGGCamp12
Liverpool
August 2012
Some Mageia contributors at FOSDEM 2012
One of our packagers and myself at FOSDEM 2012
Myself and our Systemd and Pulseaudio maintainer at FOSDEM 2012
FOSDEM 2013 Sunday evening dinner photo
Who tends to contribute?Who tends to contribute?
Students
Scientists
Researchers
Hobbyists
Why Contribute?Why Contribute?
Freedom to create, innovate and modify code to the user's needs
Be part of technological innovation and a global community.
Gain new knowledge and experience.
Picking a project to contribute to
Many projects to choose from which means making a personal choice. Researching a project that is already being used is a good idea.
Suggestions: Join project mailing lists Read the Blog Come to the IRC channels
Ways that Free and Open Source projects can be contributed toWays that Free and Open Source projects can be contributed to
Here are some of the ways that you can contribute:
Development and PackagingQuality Assurance, general testing and bug reportingEnd User SupportMarketing and advocacyArtworkWebsite CreationDonating to ProjectsDocumentationTranslation and Local CommunitiesHosting MirrorsSystem AdminsStarting hardware projects such as the Rassbery Pi.
Joining or donating to certain organisations like the Free Software Foundation, the Free Software Foundation Europe, the Linux Foundation and/or Software Freedom Law Centers is also contributing to wider Free and Open Source communities.
Thank You
Any questions or comments?
Email: [email protected] IRC: sebsebseb and found in channels such as #mageia and #mageia-social
