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My slides at the 2011 Teens in Tech Conference at the Palo Alto Conference Center in Palo Alto, California.
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Teens in Tech Conference Friday, August 5, 2011 Open Source (and you can too)
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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


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