{"id":269,"date":"2007-09-27T15:49:16","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T20:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/?p=269"},"modified":"2007-09-27T15:49:16","modified_gmt":"2007-09-27T20:49:16","slug":"getting-help-with-open-source-just-a-few-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/archives\/269\/getting-help-with-open-source-just-a-few-bits\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Help With Open Source: Just a few bits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three quotes from my presentation earlier today, on Getting Help With Open Source: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On talking to Open Source developers and asking for help: &#8220;Be Polite, Be Concise, Be Gracious.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>On diving into the code: &#8220;Code is pickled, executable documentation.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>On choosing your requests carefully: &#8220;A developer&#8217;s time is a limited resource. Don&#8217;t waste it!&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Talk went well. <a href=\"http:\/\/openlayers.org\/presentations\/foss4g2007\/helpwithos\/\">Transcript<\/a> recorded by Arnulf on IRC (<a href=\"http:\/\/logs.qgis.org\/osgeo\/%23osgeo.2007-09-27.log\">original<\/a>). Many thanks to Arnulf, and all the attendees!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three quotes from my presentation earlier today, on Getting Help With Open Source: On talking to Open Source developers and asking for help: &#8220;Be Polite, Be Concise, Be Gracious.&#8221; On diving into the code: &#8220;Code is pickled, executable documentation.&#8221; On choosing your requests carefully: &#8220;A developer&#8217;s time is a limited resource. Don&#8217;t waste it!&#8221; Talk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foss4g-2007","category-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}