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== FSOSS 2014 Report ==
==Key Note Bob Young==
Those both speakers talk about different topic. Bob Young is more about story telling of how he gets to where he is while Julian EgelStaff is more about demonstrating and on hand tutorial of how to implement a testing system for your web application. Both speakers clearly show their love for open source. Julian EgelStaff mentioned “Open source is awesome” several times throughout his presentation while Bob Young showing his passion for open source. They are both benefit from open source. For Julian, he is able to do as many testing as possible for his company web application for free as for Bob, we was able to make a lot of money. From unemployed to billionaire == Conclusion ==
During the FSOSS event I was able to attend 2 Keynotes Bob Young and Chris Aniszczyk and 4 other talks about Open source. It is an eye opening experience. I was also able to do some networking and have some good conversation with 2 of the presenters. At least two of the presenters from the talks I attended mentioned that what you learn in school doesn’t matter much. If you know what field you want to go into, go out there and look for the top 5 languages/technologies that are most commonly use in that field and start focus on one of the languages or technologies and get really good in it. One of the presenter told me that when he was in school, he didn’t study what was taught but he focus on getting really good with C#. Once he graduated, he was able to find a job very quickly even though the job he got had nothing to do with c#. However, because he know C# so well, he was able to pick up the other languages very quickly. This really makes me think if I am wasting my time in school learning things that won’t help me in the field that I am going into. 80% of the courses that I am taking are irrelevant to web developer and I feel like I don’t have an option to be more focus in the career that I am heading into. Keynote Bob Young also mentioned that Academic success has 0 correlation with your success in life. I am one of the students and put his grade before everything else because I think it will help me succeed in my career. FSOSSS had changed my point of view about academic. I was considering not to write this report since it only worth 5% and grade doesn’t really matter. I could’ve spent 6 hours for writing this report to working on an open source project or something.
