Mozilla 贡献者为大众创建糖尿病项目
Glucosio
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我的开源生涯从我还是一名高中生开始，我总想着自己能成为一名黑客，没有什么恶意的，只是喜欢钻研代码和硬件那种。我第一次接触开源是2001年，我安装了我的第一个Linux发行版[Lindows](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linspire)。当然，我也是[Mozilla Firefox](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/?utm_source=firefox-com&utm_medium=referral)的早期用户。


由于我很早使用Linux，我用的第一个版本是 Lindows 1.0.4（如果我没记错的话），我就立即爱上了它。我没在Lindows上呆太久，而是活跃于多个发行版（[Debian](https://www.debian.org/), [Puppy Linux](http://puppylinux.org/main/Overview%20and%20Getting%20Started.htm), [SUSE](https://www.suse.com/), [Slackware](http://www.slackware.com/), [Ubuntu](http://ubuntu.com/)），多年来我一直每天使用着开源软件，从青少年时候直到我成年。


最后，我坚持使用Ubuntu。大概是在Hardy Heron（LCTT 译注：Ubuntu8.04 LTS）发布时候，我开始第一次为Ubuntu做些贡献，在IRC频道和当地社区帮助那些需要帮助的用户。我是通过Ubuntu认识开源的，它在我心里总有着特殊的意义。Ubuntu背后的社区的是非常多样化的、热情的、友好的，每个人都做些共享，是他们共同的目标也是个人目标，这成为他们为开源贡献的动力。


在为Ubuntu贡献一段时间后，我开始了为一些上游项目作贡献，比如Debian、[GNOME](https://www.gnome.org/)、 [Ganeti](https://code.google.com/p/ganeti/)，还有许多其他的开源项目。在过去的几年里，我为超过40个开源项目贡献过，有些小的，也有很大的。


在Ubuntu项目方向上有些变化之后，我最终觉得，这不仅对于我是一个尝试新东西的机遇，而且也是我给一些新东西贡献的时候。所以我在2009年参与了Mozilla项目，在IRC帮忙，最终通过参与[Mozilla WebFWD program](https://webfwd.org/)，成为一名团队成员，然后是[Mozilla Reps Program](https://reps.mozilla.org/)，[Mozilla DevRel Program](https://wiki.mozilla.org/Devrel)，刚过两年时间，我成为了火狐社区的发布经理，负责监督Firefox Nightly和Firefox ESR的发布。相比其他开源项目，在为Mozilla贡献中会获得更多有益的经验。在所有我参与过的开源社区中，Mozilla是最不同的，最大的也是最友好的。


这些年来，关于开源我觉得，我越来越遵循自由软件价值观、捍卫隐私和许可协议合规，以及在开放的氛围下工作。我相信这三个主题对于开源来说是非常重要的，虽然许多人并没在意到提倡它们是很重要的。


今天在这，我已不再是别人的开源项目的全职贡献者。最近我被诊断出患有糖尿病，我看到了开源软件中健康软件不是很丰富这一缺口。确实，它不像其它开源软件应用如Linux发行版或浏览器那样活跃。


我最近创立了自己的开源项目[Glucosio](http://www.glucosio.org/)，带给人们糖尿病管理和研究的开源软件。经过几年来对开源项目的贡献，和见识过的多种组织结构，使得我作为项目领导能够得心应手。我对于Glucosio的未来很兴奋，但最重要的是未来的开源将在医疗健康领域发展的如何。


医疗保健软件的创新具有很大潜力，我想我们很快就会看到用于改善医疗卫生保健的开源新方案。




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via: <https://opensource.com/life/15/11/my-open-source-story-ben-kerensa>


作者：[Benjamin Kerensa](https://opensource.com/users/bkerensa) 译者：[ynmlml](https://github.com/ynmll) 校对：[wxy](https://github.com/wxy)


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My open source story started in high school as a student. I always considered myself to be a hacker—not the malicious type, but the curious type who liked to tinker with code and hardware. My first encounter with open source was in 2001 when I installed my first Linux distro, [Lindows](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linspire). Of course, I was also an early user of [Mozilla Firefox](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/?utm_source=firefox-com&utm_medium=referral).

As a result of my early adoption of Linux, the first version I used was 1.0.4 (if I recall correctly), and I immediately fell in love. While I did not stay long with Lindows, hopping across many distros ([Debian](https://www.debian.org/), [Puppy Linux](http://puppylinux.org/main/Overview%20and%20Getting%20Started.htm), [SUSE](https://www.suse.com/), [Slackware](http://www.slackware.com/), [Ubuntu](http://ubuntu.com/)) over the years I continued to use open source software on a daily basis from my youth into adulthood.

Eventually, I consistently used Ubuntu. Around the release of Hardy Heron I started some of my first contributions to Ubuntu, helping out on IRC and helping users locally who needed help. With Ubuntu being where I cut my teeth in open source, it has always had a special place in my heart. The community behind Ubuntu is very diverse, passionate, and friendly and everyone comes together with some shared common goals but also individuals' goals as drivers for why they contribute to open source.

After having contributed to Ubuntu for a while, I started contributing upstream to projects like Debian, [GNOME](https://www.gnome.org/), [Ganeti](https://code.google.com/p/ganeti/), and many others. In the past few years I have contributed to over 40 different open source projects, some small and some very large.

After some changes in direction in the Ubuntu project, I ended up deciding not only that was it time for me to try something new, but that also I wanted to put my contributions into something new. So I started getting involved in Mozilla around 2009, helping out on IRC and then eventually getting involved with the [Mozilla WebFWD program](https://webfwd.org/), becoming a team member, then the [Mozilla Reps Program](https://reps.mozilla.org/), [Mozilla DevRel Program](https://wiki.mozilla.org/Devrel), and then for just over two years was a Firefox Community Release Manager overseeing the release of Firefox Nightly and Firefox ESR. Contributing to Mozilla was an even more rewarding experience than contributions to other open source projects. Of all the open source communities I've been involved in, Mozilla has been the most diverse, largest, and friendliest.

One thing that has happened over the years in terms of my feelings about open source is I've become more and more aligned to the values of free software and more defensive of things like privacy and respecting licensing and working in the open. I believe all three of those topics are very important to open source, and while many may not care about these things it's important that people advocate for them.

And here I am today, no longer a full-time contributor to other people's open source projects. Recently being diagnosed with diabetes, I saw a gap in the open source ecosystem where open source health software was not very abundant. Where it did exist, it was not as active as other open source software applications like Linux distros or browsers.

I recently founded my own open source project, [Glucosio](http://www.glucosio.org/), to bring open source diabetes management and research software to the masses. My years of contributing to open source projects and observing various structures has really come in handy being a project leader now. I'm very excited about the future of Glucosio, but most importantly about the future open source and how that will play out in health and medicine.

There is a lot of potential for software innovation in healthcare, and I think we will soon see a startup disrupt healthcare and medicine with open source solutions.

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