Free and Open Source Software: Experiences of Using and How to Contribute Free and Open Source Software: Experiences of Using and How to Contribute by Sebastian at the 2nd Bristol IT Mega Meet Saturday 1st June 2013by Sebastian at the 2nd Bristol IT Mega Meet Saturday 1st June 2013

Email: sebsebseb_mageia@gmx.comFreenode IRC: sebsebseb and found in channels such as #mageia and #mageia-social

A photo from OGG Camp 12: Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th August 2012 in Liverpool

How I Became Interested in Free and Open Source SoftwareHow I Became Interested in Free and Open Source Software

History

1997 Trying many programs in Windows 2003 Mozilla and Cygwin 2004 First Linux distribution. 2004 Firefox user since v0.8 2005 Switched to Ubuntu 2005 Found out about Mandrake, the former name of Mandriva 2008-2010 Helping out with Ubuntu 2009 Nearly went back to being a user of first distro. 2009 Tried many distros going down distrowatch 2009 Switch to Mandriva as main distro 2010 Mageia announcement

Mageia 1 release in June 2011. PC Linux OS using for about five months whilst waiting. Joined Mageia team in December 2011. Went to first event FOSDEM 2012. Went to LUG. In March 2012 13th became the deputy leader of a

Mageia team. In May 2012 I tried to gain interest in the LUG and

Mageia at this event. In August 2012 I went to my first OGG Camp. In February 2013 I went to FOSDEM again.

Mageia 1 Screenshots

GNOME 2 KDE 4

XFCE LXDELXDE

Mageia 2 GNOME 3.6 with Mageia Control Centre

Mageia 2 KDE with control..

Mageia 2 XFCE with contorl...

Mageia 3 LXDE with control...

Mageia 1 Screenshot

Mageia 1 with GNOME 2Mageia 1 with GNOME 2

Mageia 2 KDE Desktop and Control Centre

Mageia 3 Screenshots

Mageia's governanceMageia's governance

OGGCamp12

Liverpool

August 2012

Some Mageia contributors at FOSDEM 2012

One of our packagers and myself at FOSDEM 2012

Myself and our Systemd and Pulseaudio maintainer at FOSDEM 2012

FOSDEM 2013 Sunday evening dinner photo

Who tends to contribute?Who tends to contribute?

Students

Scientists

Researchers

Hobbyists

Why Contribute?Why Contribute?

Freedom to create, innovate and modify code to the user's needs

Be part of technological innovation and a global community.

Gain new knowledge and experience.

Picking a project to contribute to

Many projects to choose from which means making a personal choice. Researching a project that is already being used is a good idea.

Suggestions: Join project mailing lists Read the Blog Come to the IRC channels

Ways that Free and Open Source projects can be contributed toWays that Free and Open Source projects can be contributed to

Here are some of the ways that you can contribute:

Development and PackagingQuality Assurance, general testing and bug reportingEnd User SupportMarketing and advocacyArtworkWebsite CreationDonating to ProjectsDocumentationTranslation and Local CommunitiesHosting MirrorsSystem AdminsStarting hardware projects such as the Rassbery Pi.

Joining or donating to certain organisations like the Free Software Foundation, the Free Software Foundation Europe, the Linux Foundation and/or Software Freedom Law Centers is also contributing to wider Free and Open Source communities.

Thank You

Any questions or comments?

Email: sebsebseb_mageia@gmx.comFreenode IRC: sebsebseb and found in channels such as #mageia and #mageia-social