From 96a51519eb1e398c3546f1631fa89e8a0d60e8f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Maria Leonova Date: Mar 30 2016 11:41:26 +0000 Subject: + ‘Flyer/getinvolved-flyer.svg’ --- diff --git a/Flyer/getinvolved-flyer.svg b/Flyer/getinvolved-flyer.svg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..987f096 --- /dev/null +++ b/Flyer/getinvolved-flyer.svg @@ -0,0 +1,4514 @@ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + image/svg+xml + + + + + + + + + Kevin McEntee, VP of Systems & ECommerce Engineering atNetflix, wrotea blog post in December 2010 detailingNetflix's usage of free and open source software and he also noted that Netflix contributes back to free and open source software projects, including: + + + + + + + + + + Get Involved with Open Source: a Creative's Guide + Have you ever thought about or even tried to get involved with a free and open source project, but found it was too coder-centric? These projects need your help more than ever. Here's some tips from another creative on how to get involved. www.fedoraproject.org + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Learn More... + + + + Open Clip Art LIbrary + openclipart.org Open Clip Art Library has a searchable library filled exclusively with Public Domain graphics, importable directly from inside Inkscape. + + Open Font Library + openfontlibrary.org/ All of the fonts in the Open Font Library are free software, mostly the OFL license. In many cases the source files for the fonts are available, too! + + Jamendo + jamendo.org Providing Creative Commons musicians with a place to share their work with the world, Jamendo is a great place to find great music. + Freesound + freesound.org Chock full of Creative Commons licensed sound samples, Freesound has a large repository of downloadable sounds you can use for free! + + + Creative Commons + search.creativecommons.org The Creative Commons search engine lets you search the web for CC-licensed media including images, videos, music, and other media. + Wikimedia Commons + commons.wikimedia.org Varied types of media under a variety of open licenses (mostly CC and public domain) are available here. + + + + + + CCMixter + ccmixter.org Just download and enjoy the library of CC-licensed music, or import it into your favorite editing program and post a remix! + Blend Swap + blendswap.com Blend Swap is a collaborative library where Blender 3D artists share their models under Creative Commons licenses. + + + + + + The League of Moveable Type + theleagueofmoveabletype.com/ Beautifully-curated, Open Font Licensed fonts in a variety of styles - new fonts are added on a regular basis. + Open Game Art + opengameart.org Game sprites, UI widgets, and other artwork delights can be had at Open Game Art. Allfreely-licensed. + + + + + This document was written by Máirín Duffy and is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. + + + Sony Pictures Imageworks + Netflix + + + + + Hudson Hadoop Hive Honu Apache Tomcat Ant Ivy Cassandra + + "At Netflix," McEntee says, "we jumped on for the ride a long time ago and we havebenefited enormously from the virtuous cycles of actively evolving open source projects." + + + + + + + + + + + Read more at Kevin's blog post. (QR code above) + Dreamworks Animation SKG + At the 2008 Annie awards,Dreamworks Animation's CTO Ed Leonard was awarded a Special Achievement Award for 'promoting the Linux open system for animation in animation studios and gaming software development.' Dreamworks Animation has produced animations such as Shrek using open source software - including Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In fact, their film Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas is cited by eWeek as being the first film produced entirely in Linux. According to Linux Journal, Dreamworks Animation has more than 1,000 Linux desktops in addition to the many Linux servers they use to render films. Red Hat recently announced (http://ur1.ca/3g02i) Dreamworks will be utilizing Red Hat's open source cloud technology in future productions. + + + + Twitter + + Twitter is 'built on open source' and has made many, many contributions to open source projects as listed out on a page they've created devoted their contributions, which include: + "When we plan new engineering projects at Twitter," writes Twitter on their blog, "we measure our requirements against the capabilities of open source offerings, and prefer to use open source whenever it makes sense." + + flockdb kestrel ostrich twitcher thrift snowflake scribe gizzmo cache_money + + + + + + + + + + + Read more at Twitter's blog post. (QR code above) + ❝Facebook has been developed from the ground up using open source software.❞ developers.facebook.com/opensource Facebook + + "Facebook,"starts off Facebook's Open Sourcepage, "has been developed from the ground up using open source software." The page continues to detail the open source technologies Facebook both consumes and contributes, including: + Tornado HBase MySQL CFEngine PHP PHPEmbed scribe Varnish flvtool++ + + + + + + + + Facebook is built on top of a LAMP stack - Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Facebook also hosts mirrors for popular open source software, including Apache, MySQL, CentOS, and Fedora. + Read more at Facebook's website. (QR code above) Sony PicturesImageworks notonly makes useand contributesback to free & open source creative tools suchas CinePaint, they have developed and release as open source several projects of their own.including: + OSL - Open Shading Language Alembic - Open Interchange Format + + OpenColorIO - Color Management + OpenColorIO - Color Management + + Rob Bredow, Sony PicturesImageworks CTO states on theirwebsite, "These tools have already helped Imageworks put films on the screen with greater ease, and we hope they can do the same for you." Read more at Sony Pictures Imageworks' website. (QR code above) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + #1: Know that you're needed and wanted (badly!) + + If so, I guarantee you there is a free & open source project out there that is not only desperate for your help, but will also deeply appreciate it and love you to pieces for providing it, and it'll be a blast to work on. If you encounter a project that's difficult to work with, move on, you're going to find one you love that loves you back. Can you do any of the following and have fun while doing it? + design icons & icons + create webpages + compose music + write marketing materials + write HTML/CSS + film short videos + skin/theme apps + design interactions + conduct usability studies + Many free & open source software projects today are dominated by programmers and engineers and while some are lucky enough to have the involvement of a creative person or two, for most projects a designer, artist, or other creative's presence is an often-yearned-for-yet-never-realized dream. In other words, they may not know what kinds of help to ask you for, what information they need to give you to be productive, or even the basics of how to work with you effectively. If you can make it clear to them the kind of work you'd like to offer, providing samples of other work you've done - and let them know what you need, then they will better understand how to help you engage in their project. #2: Help the project help you help them (help3) + + #3: Ask questions. Lots of questions. There are no stupid questions. + We've noticed sometimes in Fedora when new creatives come on board, they are afraid to ask technical questions for fear they will look 'stupid.' The secret is, free & open source developers can be so specialized that there are a lot of technical details outside of their immediate expertise that they don't understand either. The difference is that they aren't afraid to ask - so you shouldn't be, either! If you're not sure what to work on, or you're not sure how to get started, or you're not sure why that thing someone said in chat is so funny - ask. Free & open source communities are a friendly bunch! It can be especially effective to seek out a mentor - some projects have mentoring programs -and ask them if they wouldn't mind being your go-to person when you have questions. #4 Share and share often. Even if it isn't ready yet. Especially if it isn't ready yet. + We've also noticed new creatives in Fedora and other free & open source projects are a little shy when it comes to showing their work. I understand that you don't want to ruin your reputation by putting something out there that isn't your best or even finished, but a big part of how oepn source projects work is sharing often and openly. The further along you've come on a piece before you've shared it, the harder others will find it to provide you actionable feedback and to jump in and get involved. It's also harder for others to collaborate on your piece themselves and feeling a sense of ownership for it, supporting and championing it through to implementation. In some free & open source projects, not being forthcoming with your sketches, designs, and ideas is even seen as offensive! So please, give this tip a try and keep an open mind. Share your work early and often, and make your source files available. You might be pleasantly surprised by what happens! #5 Don't be shy. Be as visible as you can within the project community. + Do you blog? Find out which blog aggregations the members of the free & open source project you're working on read, and put in requests to have your blog added to them (there's usually a link to do so in the sidebar.) For example, the main blog aggregator you'll want to join to become a part of the Fedora community is called Planet Fedora (planet.fedoraproject.org.) Write a first blog post once you've been added introducing yourself and letting folks know what you like. The project will surely have a mailing list or forum where discussion takes place. Join it, and send an intro there too. When you create assets for the project - no matter how small, no matter how unfinished - blog about them, upload them to the project wiki, tweet about them, send links to prominent community members in IRC to get their feedback - make your work visible, and folks will start to associate you with your work and approach you with cool projects and other opportunities based solely on that. We hope these tips have been helpful and invite you to join Fedora! You can start at: join.fedoraproject.org. + +