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Another inspiring session was the [Inner Source](http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/10/innersource-at-paypal) one by Paypal: Let's apply open source practices to your own organization internally. Have others (outside your project, product core team etc.) participate - while having trusted committers (recommendation is 10% of your engineers) to keep direction and control. This might be an approach for us internally, to share code and knowledge. Also, to avoid finger pointing: We all can participate and can identify ourselves with code. Another inspiring session was the [Inner Source](http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/10/innersource-at-paypal) one by Paypal: Let's apply open source practices to your own organization internally. Have others (outside your project, product core team etc.) participate - while having trusted committers (recommendation is 10% of your engineers) to keep direction and control. This might be an approach for us internally, to share code and knowledge. Also, to avoid finger pointing: We all can participate and can identify ourselves with code.
Also on my top list of sessions: [Growth Hacking](http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/open-source-eu-2015/public/schedule/detail/46945) by David Arnoux. Again, partly because David is someone who can talk and present, is passionate about what he does (and that's something I missed in other talks). Growth hacking is a modern approach to marketing, focused on growth, everything else is second. It uses unconventional approaches to achieve that. An example is Airbnb, which used to piggy bag Craigslist (without them knowing) which was way more popular at the beginning. Also on my top list of sessions: [Growth Hacking](http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/open-source-eu-2015/public/schedule/detail/46945) by David Arnoux. Again, partly because David is someone who can talk and present, is passionate about what he does (and that's something I missed in other talks). Growth hacking is a modern approach to marketing, focused on growth, everything else is second. It uses unconventional approaches to achieve that. An example is Airbnb, which used to piggyback Craigslist (without them knowing) which was way more popular at the beginning.
[Writing code that lasts](http://de.slideshare.net/rdohms/writing-code-that-lasts-or-writing-code-you-wont-hate-tomorrow-54396256) as a session topic is not something that attracts me. It's another session about how to write better code, some low level coding guidelines we all agree on and way to often ignore. But out of better alternatives on the conference schedule, I went - and was surprised. Again, Rafael is a guy who knows how to engage with people, that helped a lot ;-) [Writing code that lasts](http://de.slideshare.net/rdohms/writing-code-that-lasts-or-writing-code-you-wont-hate-tomorrow-54396256) as a session topic is not something that attracts me. It's another session about how to write better code, some low level coding guidelines we all agree on and way to often ignore. But out of better alternatives on the conference schedule, I went - and was surprised. Again, Rafael is a guy who knows how to engage with people, that helped a lot ;-)
One of his rules: Do not use *else*. Let your code handle one thing and focus on that. Also, focus on the major use case first and don't try to anticipate every little possibility up front. A bit like the microservice approach (do one thing and one thing well), but on a smaller scale. One of his rules: Do not use *else*. Let your code handle one thing and focus on that. Also, focus on the major use case first and don't try to anticipate every little possibility up front. A bit like the microservice approach (do one thing and one thing well), but on a smaller scale.
All in all a worthwhile session. All in all a worthwhile session.
Apart from that I was excited about day 3, the tutorial day. I booked myself into the GO workshop in the morning and Kubernetes in the afternoon. Apart from that I was excited about day 3, the tutorial day. I booked myself into the GO workshop in the morning and Kubernetes in the afternoon.
Well, GO was ok, but very junior level and basically the same you can find as tutorials on the web already. Kubernetes might have been interesting, but it was assumed you have a Google Cloud account with credit card attached - which I didn't have and didn't want just for the sake of a tutorial. Therefore he lost me after 10 mins and I was behind from the start... Well, GO was ok, but very junior level and basically the same you can find as tutorials on the web already. Kubernetes might have been interesting, but it was assumed you have a Google Cloud account with credit card attached - which I didn't have and didn't want just for the sake of a tutorial. Therefore he lost me after 10 mins and I was behind from the start...
Overall I enjoyed my time at OSCON. It's always good to meet up with others, get inspired. But in total the quality of the sessions differed a lot and the tutorials, as stated, where disappointing.