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Teens in Tech Conference Friday, August 5, 2011
Open Source (and you can too)
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Hi there! I’m @nacin. Open source web developer and evangelist.
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I work for Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress, at Audrey Capital.
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Free and open source software.
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Open source is about your rights and your freedoms.
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Free as in speech, not as in beer.
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Free as in speech, not as in beer. (Or soda.)
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My story. (How I cut my teeth.)
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1. Have idea. 2. Seek knowledge. 3. ??? 4. Profit.
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2002 Databases
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Never pass up an opportunity to learn.
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You have to start somewhere.
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2003 Community
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You will one day be on a larger stage than you can handle.
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Relish it.
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2004 HTML & CSS
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2005 ASP.NET
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2006 Practicum
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2007 The Web
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2008 WordPress & PHP
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Define yourself, but don’t restrict yourself.
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Pursue your passions.
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Pursue your passions wherever they lead.
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Create a balance.
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2009 Open source
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Interact with the best.
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Absorb. Learn.
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It’s more than code.
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It’s the community.
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2010 WordPress core team
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2011 What’s next?
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It’s not about the technology.
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It’s about an idea.
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A passion.
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At WordPress, our passion is web publishing.
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Open source and entrepreneurship are not oil and water.
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“Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry.”
— Eric S. Raymond “The Manufacturing Delusion,”
The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1997)
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You will use open source.
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You should embrace it and contribute back.
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Why?
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Build an ecosystem.
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Grow a network.
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Become better.
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Find new ideas.
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Open source can be your résumé.
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Thanks! — @nacin