All Things Open - Day 2

Final day of All Things Open.  Day 2 was excellent.  Great keynotes and great sessions.  I wish I could bottle the inspiration to take throughout the year.

Keynote

• James Pearce - Facebook - "Open Source at Facebook and Beyond"
  The overflow room had audio problems so I missed the first 10 minutes.  However I got to meet some developers by reminiscing over Smalltalk: Thank you Mary, Sherri and Marianne !!
  When we did finally get audio, James had me with his lovely accent.   Seems like a good presenter but maybe I am just pleasantly distracted by his voice.   His story was about how Facebook handles open source projects including five key metrics: Followers/repo, forks/repo, pull request age, issue age & external commits. The tipping point when there are more non-facebook contributors then facebook contributors.  Also talked about a new group TODO (Talk Openly Devlop Openly) http://todogroup.org/ 
• DeLisa Alexander - Red Hat - "Women in Open Source"
  Right off the bat, I like DeLisa.  She start with a history lesson of ENIAC.   Made me thnk of how when the space gets 'important', females get crowded out.   Her talk made me think about a recent article on how cronyism is sometimes disguised as "meritocracy".   There are tons of research that our human nature acts on unconscious prejudice.
  http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/25/unconscious-bias-is-why-we-dont-have-a-diverse-workplace-says/

Sessions

• Greg DeKoenigsberg- @gregdek -Case Study: Ansible and NASA
  Discussion on http://www.ansible.com/home from a business perspective.  Ansible is a configuration management tool (like Puppet and Chef), Orchestrations (like fabric, Capistrano): Doing it together is an application deployment story.  "Fancy SSH For-loop" .  Need to make servers immutable ("Treat servers like cattle, not pets")
   (Note to self: Look at Hootsuite (https://hootsuite.com/) and Vagrant - https://www.vagrantup.com/ ) 
• Dr. Megan Squire @meganSquire0 -Case Study: We're Watching You: How and Why Researchers Study Open Source And What We've Found So Far
  Tons of interesting items to follow up on: Conway's law, Brook's law came from case studies, which is a survey of one, Gmane (get email archive), pastebin tools, Social Network Graphs and especially I need to find Megan's paper on profanity and double entente on FLOSS. Oh and cool search tools:  http://scholar.google.com/ and http://flosshub.org/biblio
• Women in Technology - DeLisa Alexander, Dr. Megan Squire, Elizabeth Joseph, Erica Stanley, Estelle Weyl, Karen Sandler - Profound and powerful.  Great panel!

Keynote 

•  Ross Mason, Founder & VP of Product Strategy for Mulesoft - The Second Digital Revolution is Here. Are You Ready for Hyperconnectivity?

Session 

• Ben Balter -GitHub - Software Development as a Civic Service government@github.com
  Email is evil (at least for project management).  Proof from Ben.  Good fast talk.  Open sourcing the way government interacts with their constituents.  Open Source community must demand it from government.
• John Potocny  -So You Think You Know 'Go'? The Go Programming Language
  Use Go 1.3.3 (Stable) : Google created the language because they saw short comings to C++.
  Go is a simple language.   Keep it as small as possible.  Has great tools. (built in testing, code coverage, govet, gofix to upgrade, ... ).  Compiles quickly, compiles natively.   Garbage collected.  Statically typed language.  Concurrency: treading library is built in.    
  Design Flaw example: play.golang.org/p/kPFCYuNTTG
  Playground: http://play.golang.org/
• Pamela Vickers -Your Company Culture is Awesome (But is Company Culture a Lie?)
  perma : Positive emotions, Engagement, Relationship, Meaning and Achievement
  (Note to self read "How Perks can divide us" santos and colburn and follow Keith Sparkjoy of Thoughtworks culture.pluralsight.com

Thanks,
G
Oh and of course some music (Walk The Moon's Shut Up and Dance)