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Bringing Sculpin to Life

Description

Are you curious about the process of creating an open-source application from scratch? Are you asking questions like, "should I contribute to an existing project instead?" or "does the world really need yet another [insert your idea here]?" Maybe you are wrestling with, "am I good enough?" or "what if nobody wants to use it?" Once you decide to go for it, a whole new round of decisions need to be made like "which framework should I use?" , "should I roll everything from scratch?" or "should I use some standalone libraries to help me?" Come see how this scenario played out for Sculpin (sculpin.io).

Learn about the motivations for creating yet another static site generator for PHP. Find out about the questions and barriers that almost kept Sculpin from ever being created. Discover the technology decisions that needed to be made and how those have changed over time. Walk away knowing more about what it was like for one open-source application to grow from idea to a full-fledged application with actual users.

Conférence donnée lors du Forum 2014, ayant eu lieu les 23 et 24 octobre 2014.

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Le speaker

Beau SIMENSEN

Beau Simensen (@beausimensen, beau.io) has been a professional polyglot programmer since 1998. He owns Dragonfly Development (dflydev.com), a consulting company, and is Co-founder and Chief Software Architect for REFLX Labs, a wearables startup out of Seattle. An active open-sourcer, he created Sculpin (sculpin.io) and helped create Stack PHP (stackphp.com). He is also the Sculpin representative to the PHP Framework Interoperability Group (PHP-FIG). Beau is a proponent of framework agnostic code. Unglue all the things!

Commentaires

Vert Nice!
Julien Breux, le 24/10/2014
As I said to you on Twitter : I'm glad to have some feedback coming from a project creator, which isn't just a commercial talk to sell a product but mostly to have a sneak peek about the history of it, and more generally about the OSS community. We saw today a man driven by his passion during all this years. And it's really refreshing. Sculpin is a great project, and I hope that it will receive as mush attention as Jekill in the next few years. Also, I really appreciate your work on Stack, simple but great piece of software here. It was a pleasure to see you in person today. Thanks you for coming to France for this edition of ForumPHP. I hope we'll have the chance to see you again soon.
Sylvain Mauduit, le 24/10/2014
Good talk - better than what I was expecting. You covered the areas of community interaction I'm quite familiar with, and the discouraging words from prominent members can indeed take a big chunk out of your motivation. I'm glad you persevered and to be honest, this talk made me want to try Sculpin out more than a purely advertising type talk would have. I hope to see you again at another conference in the future, as I'd love to discuss things I didn't get the chance to pick your brain about this time around.
Bruno Škvorc, le 24/10/2014
That was great. And honestly I was not expecting this. It was a really personal and humble real experience to the open source world. Thank you!
Hubert Moutot, le 25/10/2014
Good talk, you put the focus on the parts that needed it the most (community and do things yourself). Keep up the good work, the community needs you.
Nelson da Costa, le 25/10/2014
Your talk hit very close to home for me. I dealt with the exact same issues in the past, fear of rejection from the community, looking for excuses for reinventing the wheel, being a lone wolf. I'm happy to see I was not alone at this time, we both evolved the same way except I decided to leave the PHP community and you stayed. It was an inspiring and motivating talk, but there wasn't much to learn though.
Nicolas, le 26/10/2014
Thank's for sharing your experience
Frédéric Collet, le 26/10/2014
Thanks for your talk, and your job. Sculpin has generated my personal website during 1 year.
Alexis Janvier, le 26/10/2014
I've been using Sculpin for a couple of weeks now and I feel like I've just found what I really needed! Thank you also for having shared your experience with regards to the very demanding open source world! Would you please be so kind to add a link to the slides on this page as well?
Thierry Marianne, le 27/10/2014
Really enjoyed this talk. The description of your journey into the PHP/open-source community is inspiring.
Nikitas Frantzeskakis, le 05/11/2014