Talks

503 days working full-time on FOSS: lessons learned

Friday, May 16th, 2025 3:30 p.m.–4 p.m. in Room 301-305

Presented by

Rodrigo Girão Serrão

Experience Level:

Community Presentation

Description

I worked full-time on a Python FOSS project (Textual) for 503 days, so what did I learn?

Am I a better (Python) programmer? Am I a better teammate? Am I a better person?

In this talk, I will share some lessons I learned over the course of these 503 days:

  • How to get a tech job in this day & age
  • How to put your ego aside when working with others
  • How to deal with mistakes
  • How to interact with users & contributors online
  • How it feels to collaborate to a large codebase

As for the first 3 questions... Ask my colleagues!

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