What You Need to Know When Becoming a Free Software Hacker

Post Syndicated from Lennart Poettering original https://0pointer.net/blog/projects/hinter-den-kulissen.html

Earlier today I gave a presentation at the Technical University Berlin about
things you need to know, things you should expect and things you shouldn’t
expect when your are aspiring to become a successful Free Software Hacker.

I have put my slides up on Google Docs in case you are interested, either
because you are the target audience (i.e. a university student) or because you
need inspiration for a similar talk about the same topic.

The first two slides are in German language, so skip over them. The
interesting bits are all in English. I hope it’s quite comprehensive (though of
course terse). Enjoy:

In case your feed reader/planet messes this up, here’s the non-embedded version.

Oh, and thanks to everybody who reviewed and suggested additions to the the slides on +.