GOUP Project
What ?
- Open-source platform for knowledge and experience sharing
How ?
- No rocket science: Follow Google, IBM etc. experience
Motivation for Open Source
It's fun: According to Wikipedia, open source is a hobby
Great advertising for you: Maintainers of successful open source projects are often seen as industry leaders
Learn to code in modern style: Open source is a great way to learn how to code
Fueled with new ideas
Best technical interview
Reduce duplication effort: You should focus on your core competency.
Teaching the next generation: Many of the industry's most prominent engineers today learn by OSS
Community Work Model
- Decentralized, You are boss!
- You define / delay / postpone / cancel scope & deadline
Community Target Model
- New ideas, skills, competence ~ hopefully, new startups born
- Universities
- People, want work & study abroad
- Move to IT enterprise from other less-demand fields
What we contribute ?
- Time or luck of motivation or fair to lose
- Nerves
- Money
- Shame
- Electricity
What we get ?
- Experience
- Knowledge
- Visibility
- Friends
- Ideas
- Entrepreneur skills
- Love of young people, who knows how great and honorable gonna be after
- Maybe helping to grow new Steve Jobs, Bill Gates
- Reputation in global IT domain
Conclusion: Collaborate, contribute, benefit.