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

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/