Another big item is that as a user of an opensource tool you can answer
questions from others and help them solve problems that you've already run into.
Answering the 'easy' questions so that the developers can do more coding and
only get involved with the 'hard' questions and bugs can make a huge difference.
David Lang
On Wed, 18 Feb 2015, Alan Robertson wrote:
Hi all,
I'm putting together a talk encouraging system administrators to
contribute to open source projects, expand their idea of what
constitutes a contribution, and enable them to know that what they know
and what they can do has value to open source projects.
So as part of that I'd like to tell stories of their contributions -
large and small - and how they helped and how they were uniquely valuable.
Although I have a number of them, I'm sure there are more great stories
to tell.
If you could make the time to drop me an email about one of the stories
you know about that would be awesome!
To spark your imagination, here are a few types of contributions I've seen:
- code (shell scripts, C, Java, etc)
- patches - large or small
- testing
- test cases
- documentation
- evangelism
- recommending the project
- willingness to be a reference
- retweets, likes, and other social media
- suggestions for features
- ideas on how to do things
- insight into what's important
- pointers to other resources - RFCs, web pages with solutions
- suggestions on how to resolve an issue
- feedback on what's important
- understanding of how a tool or feature is being used
- user stories
- business rationale
- administering project servers
- continuous testing, integration, etc.
If you have any stories about how system administrators/engineers have
been helpful in open source projects, please share them with me. If you
can pass this request along to others who you think would have good
stories to share, then that would also be awesome!
Thanks in advance!
-- Alan Robertson
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