Helping Open Source

How to contribute to Open Source. Presenting at Djangothon India at Hacker Earth on 24 Aug 2015

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1. Helping Open Source Arun Ravindran @arocks
2. WE NEED YOU!... FOR OPEN SOURCE
3. • Am I allowed? • Beyond me? • Will they get offended? • My code isn’t good enough • Someone else will fix it They are all wrong… Common Excuses for NOT Contributing
4. Working in GitHub • Include usual stuff ◦ README ◦ License ◦ Docs ◦ Tests • Create Issues !! ◦ Check before you submit • Write Pull Requests ◦ Fork into yours ◦ Clone locally ◦ Use common idioms ◦ Create branch ◦ Run tests
5. Contributing to Django Report bugs in Django’s ticket tracker Share ideas at django-developers mailing list Submit patches (low-hanging in easy pickings) Improve docs or tests Review patches