E5: All You Need To Know About Open Source

During my 5-6 years of experience in the field many times, I have heard the term "open source" but never completely understood it. I heard from many people around me that I should contribute and if you are not doing it you are not going to get better. In this Episode, I and Benjamin Gruenbaum (Senior developer at Microsoft & Node.js/Bluebird/MobX/etc Core Collaborator & Teacher) will talk about open source. Stay tuned as we got some interesting things to share with you!

Episode timelines

00:52 All about our guest

04:37 What is open source?

11:45 What is open source being used for?

13:09 Is Wikipedia open source?

18:37 What problem does open source solves?

25:37 Why should a developer contribute to open source?

35:22 How can a developer start contributing to open source?

39:29 During the month of "oktoberfest" don't contribute to open source?

42:23 Should you commit a certain time to spend on open source?

43:40 Can I start my own open source project without experience in it?

45:31 Going through the most popular licenses and what it means

50:06 Talking about cyber security and open source

53:26 Given that you opened a Github project, is it open source by default?

57:19 Summary & Closing

Helpful resources:

• FreeSoftwareFoundation(Fsf) - is a nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom. Here you can learn more about open source.
• The Linux Foundation - Where you can get trained & Certificated for open source.
• Benjamin Gruenbaum - The guest of today's show, you can contact him in case you are interseted in joining to one of the projects he is contributing to.