Building Your Open Resume

Getting Hired

The Old Way

The New Way

The Problem

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend - Theophrastus

A Solution?

Convince your Boss

Logic?

Lets go with Emotion

$$$$

$$$$

$$$$

$$$$

Talent

Recruitment

Retention

Open Source is your dev teams marketing budget

Reach people outside of your sphere of influence

Not many 10x devs looking at Craigslist

No Luck?

Honor Your Spare Time

Focus on fun

Focus on volume

Focus on variety

Burnout is real

Design for Sharing

Think about your code's future audience

LOA

Library
Oriented
Architecture

      

If not the whole publish a significant part

And... there are always bugs

But wait!

Code Alone is not an open source project!

software engineers generally have a reputation for being arrogant, disagreeable, and moody - Nicholas Zakasnczonline.net/blog/2012/06/12/the-care-and-feeding-of-software-engineers-or-why-engineers-are-grumpy

Issues & Comments

Fight the urge

Remember mailing lists?

Google Does...

THIS STUFF LIVES FOREVER

Self Promotion

If you create an awesome new project in the woods does it make a sound?

Twitter

Blog

Hacker News

Public Speaking

Book?

Thank you!

@mrf