Name: From Corporate Life to Open Source by Alex Lakatos | Community Lounge | JSConf EU 2019
Uploaded: 2020-03-28T17:31:05.000Z
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Um, I'm Alex, and I do a bunch of things in this world, as you can see.

Among the serious things I do as I'm a volunteer from is a lot.

And I want to tell you all a story about the T shirt.

That's basically how I got involved in open source about nine years ago.

Uh, I was fresh out of college in Romania and those looking for a job now in Romania, there's only one kind of tax job, and that's outsourcing.

If you're lucky enough to not know what outsourcing is, it basically means you get rented out.

You get rented out by the hour by the day to other companies.

And when I started out, I was doing this.

I was working for a trip planning company, kind of like trip it.

And about three months into my job, my boss came to me and said, You know what?

We've got this project called Mazzella, and I need someone to fill a role.

And on top of that, I had no idea what Mozilla was.

He was like, Look, I need to fill this role for three weeks.

I'll find someone else to replace you in those three weeks, but you have to take it.

I was like, Okay, there were several problems with this.

I wanted to be a developer when I grew up.

Testers weren't really my friends on top of that.

Um so I joined the team around Firefox for and they had this T shirt that said Firefox for Beata Tester and I joined a week after they got the T shirt.

Of course, when manager was an asshole and he didn't keep the bargain So a month later, I was still working for this project.

And every morning I read this thing called the Muscle a planet which is kind of like a block aggregator everything that happens in the Muslim world.

And I read it because it helped me with my job.

The release note that says everything and something kind of popped up.

The Mossad documentation Network was holding a documentation sprint over the weekend for $40 and the kicker was, If you participated, you got the T shirt, and that's when I had my great idea.

I'm gonna go participate for, like, two hours get the T shirt and my master plan.

That t shirt's not only will I fit in that team, I'm gonna be better than everybody else.

So my plan also included because I was fresh out of college and I had money.

My plan also included to go get wasted with my friends over the weekend, and I joined Saturday morning.

As soon as I joined, I joined, and I have C and everybody was welcome.

And compared to my normal day to day work that was mind blowing.

And instead of staying two hours with those people, I stayed for 48.

Because apparently you don't need that much sleep when you're fresh out of college.

Now, the sense of belonging that happened over the Internet on IRC was the thing that kept me going.

But I love this people part of this project, this little you could call it this little tangent to my work.

And in those 48 hours, my my friends kept calling me and calling me Where are you were at the club.

Why don't you want to come have fun with us?

Yeah, my friends call me trades United Names, but I stayed for 48 hours like contributed to MD.

And I think to this day some of the CSS examples I've put in tow mdn still exist.

But what I got at the end of this experience, as I got the sense of belonging and a sense of community that I didn't get anyone else going back to my work.

I had so many ideas just because I knew the right people.

I knew who to connect with and who to talk to if I wanted to do something.

Outside of my work, had this network of people to help me out.

If I had 23 hours in my day and I want to get back to something, I had this opportunity to be involved with everything from teaching coats, from teaching kids to code, the writing documentation in my pajamas on a weekend.

It was all available, and I feel like I found Lee find the missing piece in my puzzle.

I finally found a way where I could fit them.

Now, nine years later, I still days I still contribute to the mazelike community and the reason behind that, as I strongly believe in his last mission.

If you don't know what his last mission has, please Google it.

 And I think I'm running out of time and I don't have anything else to say, but thank you. 