foss-contributors-mindset.md (1162B)
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- title: The FOSS contributor's mindset
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- **Abstract**
- > Many people use free software, and a fraction of them have dipped their toes
- > into contributing - publishing their own projects, or contributing to one or
- > two. Too few, however, have completely grokked the opportunities the expansive
- > free software ecosystem offers to us.
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- > This talk will discuss how to contribute to a wider variety of projects,
- > introduce useful tools for quickly coming to grips with a foreign codebase,
- > and explain the mindset that these tools help to cultivate.
- **Resources**
- - [Download slides](/talks/foss-contributors-mindset.pdf)
- - [find(1)](https://linux.die.net/man/1/find)
- - [git-grep(1)](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-grep)
- - [git-blame(1)](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-blame)
- - [Alpine aports](https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/)
- - [git-send-email.io](https://git-send-email.io)
- **Events**
- Philly Linux Users Group (PLUG) Central
- 2019-11-06 @ 8 PM (PLUG begins at 7 PM)
- University of the Sciences in Philadelphia (USP)<br />
- Griffith Hall (Room "C" or "A", look for the signs)<br />
- 600 South 43rd Street<br />
- Philadelphia, PA 19104-4495