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Me & Open Source

• Done open source / blogged for 10 years
• It's brought me joy, it's made the world slightly better
• I want to reduce the mystery

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Hi, I'm John.

• I blog: https://blog.johnnyreilly.com
• I OSS: https://github.com/johnnyreilly
• I tweet: https://twitter.com/johnny_reilly

• Worked at Investec for 5 years
• What I do outside of work

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Let me take you back...

• Dad bought a computer when I was 8
• Programming listings
• did computer science at a-level, not uni

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Starting out

• Didn't do computer science
• Got an apprenticeship
• worked in telecoms, marketing, pre oss microsoft, finance

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OSS goes mainstream:

GitHub

"I can see code!"

• Started to see code

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OSS goes mainstream:

Microsoft

"This is for me?"

• Microsoft and OSS 2007
• Scott Hanselman
• should i be doing something?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub

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Hello world

• My son was born
• Start blogging
• Start OSS

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My first open source project!

jQuery.Validation.Unobtrusive.Native

• jQuery Validation
• Spotted a gap
• used with Knockout JS
• driven by work usage

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Contributing to other open source projects...

• Docs - Angular.js
• Docs - jQuery Validation
• Type Definitions - Definitely Typed

• Very nervous - imposter syndrome
• Docs - not "code"
• Paris
• Why am I telling you this?
• driven by work usage

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2016: ts-loader

• ts-loader abandoned
• decided to help
• still totally imposter

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2016: ts-loader

• high maintenance
• decided to make it easier to work on
• I needed it
• I was having fun!

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2022: ts-loader

• From ~5 million downloads per year
• To ~200 million downloads per year

• ts-loader used by Bloomberg, Investec, Microsoft, Google etc

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I'm not a great engineer...

johnnyreilly == good_engineer + 
                works_hard_at_communicating + 
                curious + 
                enthusiastic

• there are more talented engineers in this room than me
• you might doubt yourself - but that's just modesty and imposter syndrome

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What did OSS do for me?

1. Fun

2. Profit

• had fun
• made a difference
• worked with talented people I might never have encountered
• helped get me jobs / work
• mostly driven by work I was doing

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What could OSS do for you?

1. Build your brand

2. Collaborate

3. Communicate

4. Fun & Profit

• it could do for you what it did for me
• I invite you to consider it

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What could OSS do for us...

What if we gave back? {.fragment}

1. Talent {.fragment}

2. Pride {.fragment}

3. Fun & Profit {.fragment}

• attract / retain talent
• I'm proud - I've changed the world a little bit - you could too
• Not joking about profit - the market looks for signs of engineering excellence

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And if we do OSS...

Where would we do it?

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Let's make an organisation.