22: LIVE - An Open Source Discussion Panel

A discussion on Open Source technologies with open source contributors & interested developers. We tackle topics such as how to get started contributing, resources that developers might need, starting a project of your own, understanding licenses, monetization strategies, and the darker sides of open source. Our panelists: Rob Simpson, Senior Engineer at AgileX & Host of The WaterCooler Web Dev Show Joe Barnes, Senior Architect at Mentor Graphics & Lift web framework contributor Matt Creager - Developer Advocate at Heroku Erik Isaksen - UX Engineer at3Pillar Global Christian Smith - Open source developer and startup enthusiast Nick Niemeir- JavaScript Agent Engineer atNew Relic This episode is also available on our YouTube channel Links Open Source Jerks - http://readwrite.com/2014/12/15/open-source-avoid-the-jerks What is open source? - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software_development The Open Source Initiative - http://opensource.org/ Open Source is innovation - http://www.infoworld.com/article/2607921/application-development/the-open-source-way-of-being.html Github - https://github.com Bitbucket - https://bitbucket.org Gitlab - https://gitlab.com LiftWeb - http://liftweb.net/ & https://github.com/lift Free as in Freedom - https://static.fsf.org/nosvn/faif-2.0.pdf The Cathedral and the Bazaar - http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/ The Magic Cauldron - http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/magic-cauldron/magic-cauldron.html Is npm worth 2.6MM? - http://words.steveklabnik.com/is-npm-worth-26mm Contributing on GitHub - https://guides.github.com/activities/contributing-to-open-source/ Various Licenses and Comments - https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html Design & development in Open Source - http://open-karma.com/ Gitter - https://gitter.im/